Chaos control using small-amplitude damping signals of the extended Duffing equation

This paper examines the application of a simple feedback controller to eliminate the chaotic behavior in a controlled extended Duffing system. The main idea is to regulate the chaotic motion of an extended Duffing system around less complex attractors, such as equilibrium points and periodic orbits. The proposed feedback controller is composed by a high-pass filter and a saturator, so its implementation is quite simple and can be made on the basis of measured signals. The affectivity of the proposed feedback control strategy is illustrated by means of numerical simulations.