Experimental data from "Experimental continuation in nonlinear dynamics: recent advances and future challenges"

<b>Experimental data from "</b><b>Experimental continuation in nonlinear dynamics: </b><b>recent advances and future challenges"</b><br><b>Original publication</b>Raze, G., Abeloos, G. &amp; Kerschen, G. Experimental continuation in nonlinear dynamics: recent advances and future challenges. <i>Nonlinear Dyn</i> (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-024-10543-9<b>Abstract</b>Experimental continuation encompasses a set of methods that combine control and continuation to obtain the full bifurcation diagram of a nonlinear system experimentally, including responses that would be unstable in the system without feedback control. Such control-based methods thus allow the experimenter to directly and exhaustively explore the dynamics of the system without the need for a good mathematical model. The objective of this paper is twofold, namely (i) to review and present the state-of-the-art methods in a unified manner and (ii) to introduce a novel experimental derivative-free arclength continuation procedure, termed arclength control-based continuation. These methods are also demonstrated and compared on an electronic Duffing oscillator and a clamped thin plate featuring geometrical nonlinearity. Finally, the current state of the art is reflected upon, and the challenges lying ahead for this growing field are discussed.<b>Description of the dataset</b>This dataset contains all experimental data necessary to plot the figures of the aforementioned journal article, displaying results of various tests on an electronic Duffing oscillator, and a thin clamped plate. Data was acquired with a MicroLabBox from dSPACE, and a Scadas Mobile from Siemens. Raw data is available in .mat files, compressed in the Data.zip archive (~ 4GB).<b>Use</b>The figures can be plotted with Matlab scripts. Please refer to the file readme.txt for more information.