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Small-Gain-Based Boundary Feedback Design for Global Exponential Stabilization of 1-D Semilinear Parabolic PDEs

Optimization and Control 2018-09-12 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

This paper presents a novel methodology for the design of boundary feedback stabilizers for 1-D, semilinear, parabolic PDEs. The methodology is based on the use of small-gain arguments and can be applied to parabolic PDEs with nonlinearities that satisfy a linear growth condition. The nonlinearities may contain nonlocal terms. Two different types of boundary feedback stabilizers are constructed: a linear static boundary feedback and a nonlinear dynamic boundary feedback. It is also shown that there are fundamental limitations for feedback design in the parabolic case: arbitrary gain assignment is not possible by means of boundary feedback. An example with a nonlocal nonlinear term illustrates the applicability of the proposed methodology.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.04039,
  title  = {Small-Gain-Based Boundary Feedback Design for Global Exponential Stabilization of 1-D Semilinear Parabolic PDEs},
  author = {Iasson Karafyllis and Miroslav Krstic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04039},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

23 pages, 4 figures, submitted for possible publication to SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization