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In adaptive control, a controller is precisely designed for a certain model of the system, but that model's parameters are updated online by another mechanism called the adaptive update. This allows the controller to aim for the benefits of…
This work studies the null controllability of a system of coupled parabolic PDEs. In particular, our work specializes to an important subclass of these control problems which are coupled by first and zero-order couplings and are,…
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