Anti-Control of Chaos in Rigid Body Motion Using an Internal Torque Source

Chaotification of rigid body motion is studied by (Chen and Lee, 2004) where three external torque sources are applied as the control inputs. Alternatively, the present paper is involved with this task using a variable speed control moment gyro (VSCMG), as an internal torque generator. Although a VSCMG provides only two control inputs, we show that the total fifth-order momentum conserving system could form a new chaotic model by a simple linear control law. In addition, the robustness of the generated chaos against feedback gains variation is numerically verified.