Making a continuous-time minimum-phase system chaotic by using time-delay feedback

A time-delay feedback control approach is developed for making a continuous-time minimum-phase system chaotic. The approach is based on the geometric control theory and a suitable approximate relationship between a time-delay differential equation and a discrete map. If the original system has an exponentially stable equilibrium point, then a simple time-delay output-feedback controller with arbitrarily small amplitude can drive the system chaotic. Two different types of simulation examples are included for demonstration.