Analysis of chaotic behavior in double pendulum

This thesis deals with the presentation of basic knowledge regarding chaos theory. There are mentioned several basic methods of dimension calculation as well as the overall use of this theory in various scientific disciplines. The main part is devoted to the complete analysis of a double pendulum. To initiate into the issue, this situation was outlined on a simple mathematical basis pendulum. There is derived a numeral system of two differential equations of second order to work with the double pendulum. Thanks to computer program Matlab there was created a fractal that represents chaotic behavior of the double pendulum. Knowledge acquired from dimension calculation was used here to classify the fractal and to work out its dimension. In addition there was analyzed impact of parameters of behavior in system. This overall chaotic behavior has been verified by the largest Lyapunov exponent and the 0–1 test, which identified areas, where this system behaves chaotically and where it is stable