Abstract: Spatiotemporal chaos control in a one-dimensional nonlinear drift-wave equation is considered. We propose a method of coupled feedback to suppress the spatiotemporal chaos of the drift-wave,based on the flocking algorithms. By using real agents and virtual agents as our target, we show numerically that the spatiotemporal chaos can be controlled to a regular state if appropriate control strength is chosen. The physical mechanism is analyzed based on the correlation coefficient

Keywords: 
• spatiotemporal chaos /
• drift wave /
• the flocking algorithms /
• correlation coefficient