Predicting period-doubling bifurcations and multiple oscillations in nonlinear time-delayed feedback systems

In this brief, a graphical approach is developed from an engineering frequency-domain approach enabling prediction of perioddoubling bifurcations (PDB's) starting from a small neighborhood of Hopf bifurcation points useful for analysis of multiple oscillations of periodic solutions for time-delayed feedback systems. The proposed algorithm employs higher order harmonic-balance approximations (HBA's) for the predicted periodic solutions of the time-delayed systems. As compared to the same study of feedback systems without time delays, the HBA's used in the new algorithm include only some simple modifications. Two examples are used to verify the graphical algorithm for prediction: one is the well-known time-delayed Chua's circuit (TDCC) and the other is a time-delayed neural-network model. ©1998 IEEE.