Abstract
Bouncing tractors have been shown to be a potentially chaotic system by the author's previous theoretical study. The conducted numerical experiments predicted nonlinear vibrations such as periodic, period-doubling, quasi-periodic and chaotic vibrations. In this paper, the dynamics of a bouncing tractor were investigated experimentally and the results predicted in the previous study were validated. In addition, a bifurcation structure of the dynamical system of the bouncing tractor were clarified experimentally, and nonlinear resonance was observed in this experiment.
