ORBITADOR: A tool to analyze the stability of periodical dynamical systems

Abstract

Tool Presentation: We present ORBITADOR, a tool for stability analysis of dynamical systems. ORBITADOR uses a method that generates a bounded invariant set of a differential system with a given set of initial conditions around a point x0 to prove the existence of a limit cycle. This invariant has the form of a tube centered on the Euler approximate solution starting at x0, which has for radius an upper bound on the distance between the approximate solution and the exact ones. The method consists in finding a real T > 0 such that the “snapshot” of the tube at time t = (i+1)T is included in the snapshot at t = iT , for some integer i with adding a small bounded uncertainty. This uncertainty allows using an approximate value T of the exact period. We successfully applied ORBITADOR to several classical examples of periodical systems.