Another application is to controlling cardiac chaos. Garfinkel, Spano, Ditto, and Weiss performed experiments on on rabbit hearts in chemical-induced arrhythmias. The OGY method succeeded in controlling chaos in 8 of the 11 experiments.
The time series was the interval between successive heartbeats.
The return map is on the right, the time series on the left.
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In this example, control both
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