Analysis on an Oscillator With Delayed Feedback Near Double Hopf Bifurcations
Abstract This paper considers the effect of time delayed feedbacks in a nonlinear oscillator with external forcing. The particular attention is focused on the case where the corresponding linear system has two pairs of purely imaginary eigenvalues at a critical point, leading to double Hopf bifurcations. An analytical approach is used to find the explicit expressions for the critical values of the system parameters at which non-resonant or resonant Hopf bifurcations may occur. A fourth-order Ronge-Kutta numerical integration scheme is applied to obtain the dynamical solutions in the vicinity of the critical points. Both the cases with and without the external forcing are considered. It has been found the system exhibits very rich complex dynamics including periodic, quasi-periodic and chaotic motions. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis is carried out to show that chaotic motions are very sensitive to the time delay. This suggests that the time delay can be used: (1) to control bifurcations and chaos; and (2) to generate bifurcations and chaos.