Bringing order to disorder: a method for stabilising a chaotic system around an arbitrary unstable periodic orbit (Q6090647)

The authors propose a method for creating an arbitrary periodic point in the Poincaré section of a chaotic dynamical system which is then stabilized by the chaos control method of \textit{E. Ott} et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, No. 11, 1196--1199 (1990; Zbl 0964.37501)]. In order to find a small control input that changes the dynamics such that a prescribed unstable periodic orbit exists in the Poincaré map an optimal control problem with piecewise constant controls is solved. The method is illustrated by applying it to the driven and damped Josephson junction in a chaotic parameter regime.