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Linear max-plus systems describe the behavior of a large variety of complex systems. It is known that these systems show a periodic behavior after an initial transient phase. Assessment of the length of this transient phase provides…
Bouncing droplets on a vibrating fluid bath can exhibit wave-particle behavior, such as being propelled by interacting with its own wave field. These droplets seem to walk across the bath, and thus are dubbed walkers. Experiments have shown…
Globally coupled ensembles of phase oscillators serve as useful tools for modeling synchronization and collective behavior in a variety of applications. As interest in the effects of simplicial interactions (i.e., non-additive, higher-order…
In this paper, we carry out a global qualitative analysis of a reduced planar quartic Topp system which models the dynamics of diabetes. In particular, studying global bifurcations, we prove that such a system can have at most two limit…
We develop a predictor-feedback control design for multi-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays, of arbitrary length, in each individual input channel. Due to the fact that different input signals reach the plant at different…
We study the effects of time delayed linear and nonlinear feedbacks on the dynamics of a single Hopf bifurcation oscillator. Our numerical and analytic investigations reveal a host of complex temporal phenomena such as phase slips,…
This thesis proposes mathematical traffic models and control laws for metro lines with one junction. The models are based on the ones developed for linear metro lines (without junction) in [12, 14]. The train dynamics are described with a…
In this paper we study the appearance of bifurcations of limit cycles in an epidemic model with two types of aware individuals. All the transition rates are constant except for the alerting decay rate of the most aware individuals and the…
A novel nonlinear model predictive control approach for state signal shaping is proposed. The control strategy introduces a residual shape cost kernel based on the dynamics of circular limit cycles from a supercritical Neimark-Sacker…
Limit cycles (attractors for neighbouring periodic orbits in a dissipative dynamical system) have been widely studied but the corresponding generalization for quasi periodic orbits have rarely been discussed. Here we investigate "higher…
In this article we study the existence of limit cycles in families of piecewise smooth differential equations having the unit circle as discontinuity region. We consider families presenting singularities of center or saddle type, visible or…
In this paper we consider a system of strongly coupled logistic maps involving two parameters. We classify and investigate the stability of its fixed points. A local bifurcation analysis of the system using Center Manifold is undertaken and…
This paper concerns two-dimensional Filippov systems --- ordinary differential equations that are discontinuous on one-dimensional switching manifolds. In the situation that a stable focus transitions to an unstable focus by colliding with…
By using the Picard-Fuchs equation and the property of Chebyshev space to the discontinuous differential system, we obtain an upper bound of the number of limit cycles for the nongeneric quadratic reversible system when it is perturbed…
In this paper, we present a method of higher-order analysis on bifurcation of small limit cycles around an elementary center of integrable systems under perturbations. This method is equivalent to higher-order Melinikov function approach…
This paper is the latter part of our series concerning infinite concentration and oscillation phenomena on supercritical semilinear elliptic equations in discs. Our supercritical setting admits two types of nonlinearities, the…
We consider deterministic fast-slow dynamical systems of the form \[ x_{k+1}^{(n)} = x_k^{(n)} + n^{-1} A(x_k^{(n)}) + n^{-1/\alpha} B(x_k^{(n)}) v(y_k), \quad y_{k+1} = Ty_k, \] where $\alpha\in(1,2)$ and $x_k^{(n)}\in{\mathbb R}^m$. Here,…
In this paper, an interesting and new bifurcation phenomenon that limit cycles could be bifurcated from nilpotent node (focus) by changing its stability was investigated. It is different from lowing its multiplicity in order to get limit…
A method of stabilizing 2-cycles in discrete dynamic systems by Delayed Feedback Control is developed by using classic Harmonic Analysis.
Lienard systems of the form $\ddot{x}+\epsilon f(x)\dot{x}+x=0$, with f(x) an even continous function, are considered. The bifurcation curves of limit cycles are calculated exactly in the weak ($\epsilon\to 0$) and in the strongly…