Stabilizing spiral waves by noninvasive structural perturbations.

We suggest a promising engineering approach to structural perturbation that in principle generates arbitrary additional connections artificially. We show that this structural perturbation method can be applied to stabilize spiral waves noninvasively. Furthermore, the stabilization performance is improved dramatically using proper delay for each additional connection to be created. This structural perturbation method with proper parameters can also be considered as a noninvasive adaptive pinning control that obtains better control performance than the typical constant pinning control. Remarkably, we numerically illustrate that a few additional connections (i.e., small structural perturbation) may result in stabilization of spiral waves. All methods suggested are motivated and illustrated with a FitzHugh-Nagumo model.