Controlling Canard cycles (Q2155920)

The article concerns the problem of controlling canard cycles in planar singular perturbation systems with a folded critical manifold. The authors propose the key conception of compatible controllers such that the controlled singular perturbation system can not change its singularity. Then based on the geometric singular perturbation theory and the blow-up technique, the authors show that the designed controller can stabilize canard cycles of planar fast-slow systems with a folded critical manifold. Also it is shown that a controller can produces stable mixed-mode oscillations in the van der Pol oscillator. The results contained in this paper is very interesting.