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Lecture

Van der Pol Oscillator

In course

ME-523: Nonlinear Control Systems

Les systèmes non linéaires sont analysés en vue d'établir des lois de commande. On présente la stabilité au sens de Lyapunov, ainsi que des méthodes de commande géométrique (linéarisation exacte). Divers exemples illustrent la théorie (exercices papier cra ...

Description

This lecture covers the Van der Pol oscillator, exploring its dynamic equations, phase plane representation, and temporal integration. Students will transform second-order systems into first-order systems, simulate the phase plane, and analyze the oscillator's behavior under different conditions.

Instructor

Philippe Müllhaupt

Official source

Ontological neighbourhood

Systems science and engineering

Systems theory: Chaos theory

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Van der Pol oscillator

In the study of dynamical systems, the van der Pol oscillator (named for Dutch physicist Balthasar van der Pol) is a non-conservative, oscillating system with non-linear damping. It evolves in time according to the second-order differential equation where x is the position coordinate—which is a function of the time t—and μ is a scalar parameter indicating the nonlinearity and the strength of the damping. The Van der Pol oscillator was originally proposed by the Dutch electrical engineer and physicist Balthasar van der Pol while he was working at Philips.

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