Persistence of chaos in a time-delayed-feedback controlled Duffing system.

This paper concerns global phase structures of a time-delayed-feedback controlled two-well Duffing system. The remains of a global stretch and fold structure along an unstable manifold, which develops from an unstable fixed point in function space, reveals that the global chaotic dynamics is inherited from the original system by the controlled system. The remains of the original chaotic dynamics causes a highly complicated domain of attraction for target orbits and a long chaotic transient before convergence.