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We generalize a method of control of chaos which uses delayed feedback at the period of an unstable orbit to stabilize that orbit. The generalization consists of substituting some portion of the nonlinear dynamical system with a delayed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 M. de Sousa Vieira , A. J. Lichtenberg

The operational formulations of quantum theory are drastically time oriented. However, to the best of our knowledge, microscopic physics is time-symmetric. We address this tension by showing that the asymmetry of the operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Andrea Di Biagio , Pietro Donà , Carlo Rovelli

We investigate a thermodynamic arrow associated with quantum projective measurements in terms of the Jensen-Shannon divergence between the probability distribution of energy change caused by the measurements and its time reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Juyeon Yi , Beom Jun Kim

This paper considers the problem of identifying the parameters of an uncertain linear system by means of feedback control. The problem is approached by considering time-varying controllers. It is shown that even when the uncertainty set is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-17 G. Battistelli , P. Tesi

Limitations of the delayed feedback control and of its extended versions have been fully treated in the literature. The oscillating delayed feedback control appears as a promising scheme to overcome this problem. In this work, two methods…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Verónica E. Pastor , Graciela González

This study proposes a time-symmetric framework for quantum measurement that restores microscopic reversibility at the level of the dynamical description while remaining compatible with causality and thermodynamic consistency. Instead of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shin-ichi Inage

Feedback loops are known as a versatile tool for controlling transport in small systems, which usually have large intrinsic fluctuations. Here we investigate the control of a temporal correlation function, the waiting time distribution,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Tobias Brandes , Clive Emary

Feedback control plays a central role in active matter, yet it is inevitably accompanied by noise and finite perception--action delays. This Perspective reviews recent advances on active systems with delayed interactions, showing how time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Viktor Holubec , Frank Cichos

We investigate the transient times for the onset of control of steady states by time-delayed feedback. The optimization of control by minimising the transient time before control becomes effective is discussed analytically and numerically,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-12-10 Robert C. Hinz , Philipp Hövel , Eckehard Schöll

This thesis addresses two major problems in the philosophy of physics. The first is how to identify the minimal physical content of a theory; that is, what features of a theory are truly needed to make predictions, and what can be removed…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Sean Gryb

We study the possibility to stabilize unstable steady states and unstable periodic orbits in chaotic fractional-order dynamical systems by the time-delayed feedback method. By performing a linear stability analysis, we establish the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-07 Aleksandar Gjurchinovski , Trifce Sandev , Viktor Urumov

Predictive Feedback Control is an easy-to-implement method to stabilize unknown unstable periodic orbits in chaotic dynamical systems. Predictive Feedback Control is severely limited because asymptotic convergence speed decreases with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-17 Christian Bick , Christoph Kolodziejski , Marc Timme

This manuscript addresses the analysis and design of feedback laws for the stabilization of bilinear control systems in infinite-dimensional spaces. It first examines weak, strong, and polynomial stabilization within a Hilbert space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Mohamed Ouzahra

We report on a significant improvement of the classical time-delayed feedback control method for stabilization of unstable periodic orbits or steady states. In an electronic circuit experiment we were able to realize time-varying and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-03 Thomas Jüngling , Aleksandar Gjurchinovski , Viktor Urumov

Time delayed feedback control is one of the most successful methods to discover dynamically unstable features of a dynamical system in an experiment. This approach feeds back only terms that depend on the difference between the current…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Jan Sieber

Stability theory plays a crucial role in feedback control. However, adaptive control theory requires advanced and specialized stability notions that are not frequently used in standard feedback control theory. The present document is a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

This paper investigates the prescribed-time smooth control problem for a class of uncertain nonholonomic systems. With a novel smooth time-varying state transformation, the uncertain chained nonholonomic system is reformulated as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Kang-Kang Zhang , Bin Zhou , Chenchen Fan , James Lam

This paper considers the problem of controlling a piecewise continuously differentiable system subject to time-varying uncertainties. The uncertainties are decomposed into a time-invariant, linearly-parameterized portion and a time-varying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Ying-Chun Chen , Craig Woolsey

This letter presents a unified framework for the design of prescribed-time controllers under time-varying input and state constraints for normal-form unknown nonlinear systems with uncertain input gain. The proposed approach is based on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-20 Amir Shakouri , Nima Assadian

We introduce general results on well-posedness and output regulation of regular linear systems with nonautonomous controllers. We present a generalization of the internal model principle for time-dependent controllers with asymptotically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Lassi Paunonen , Sepideh Afshar