Jes. Socolar et Dj. Gauthier, ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF MULTIPLE-DELAY SCHEMES FOR CONTROLLING UNSTABLE FIXED-POINTS OF DISCRETE MAPS, Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 57(6), 1998, pp. 6589-6595
We investigate theoretically the stabilization of a fixed point of a d
iscrete one-dimensional nonlinear map by applying small perturbations
to an accessible system parameter or variable. The size of the perturb
ations is determined in real time using feedback schemes incorporating
only the dynamical state of the system and its state at previous iter
ates without making a comparison to a reference state. In particular,
we compare and contrast two algorithms: extended time-delay autosynchr
onization, which uses an infinite series of past iterates with weights
that decay by a factor of R with each time step, and N-time-delay aut
osynchronization, which uses an average of N past iterates with equal
weights. The range of feedback parameters that successfully stabilize
the fixed point and the robustness of the schemes to noise are determi
ned. It is found that the domain of control for the two schemes is sim
ilar for appropriately matched values of R and N, and that N-time-dela
y autosynchronization tends to be less sensitive to noise.