International Journal of Control, Vol.74, No.5, 445-452, 2001
Stationary bifurcation control of systems with uncontrollable linearization
Stationary bifurcation control is studied under the assumption that the critical zero eigenvalue is uncontrollable for the linearized system. The development facilitates explicit construction of feedback control laws that render the bifurcation supercritical. Thus, the bifurcated equilibria in the cont rolled system are guaranteed stable. Both pitchfork bifurcation and transcritical bifurcation are addressed. The results obtained for pitchfork bifurcations apply to general non-linear models smooth in the state and the control. For transcritical bifurcations, the results require the system to be affine in the control.