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Energy conversion by autonomous regulation of chaos: dynamical mechanism of loose coupling
Naoko Nakagawa1, Kunihiko Kaneko, Teruhisa S Komatsu
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan. nah@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp
Abstract:
Inspired by recent experiments of molecular motors, a dynamical systems model for a flexible machine is proposed which converts injected energy to output directional motion. The output amount is distributed broadly, and thus the coupling between input energy and output motion is loose, as in the experiments. This energy conversion is shown to be robust against the change of surrounding environment. Stability analysis on the fixed point solutions of the model is presented, which suggests that transient chaotic motion, induced by temporal three-body motion, is relevant to the energy conversion.
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