An experiment on Benard-Marangoni time-dependent convection shows evidence
of an amplitude turbulent regime in the temperature signal which is modeled
by a delayed dynamical, system. Application of a control procedure, which
perturbs the value of the delay time, leads to the control of such dynamica
l regime, by suppression of phase defects and stabilization of the regular
oscillations. The control technique is robust against the presence of large
amounts of noise.