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We prove an exact controllability result for a one-dimensional heat equation with delay in both lower and highest order terms and nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Moreover, we give an explicit representation of the control…
We prove that the thickness property is a necessary and sufficient geometric condition that ensures the (rapid) stabilization or the approximate null-controllability with uniform cost of a large class of evolution equations posed on the…
This paper deals with the controllability of linear one-dimensional hyperbolic systems. Reformulating the problem in terms of linear difference equations and making use of infinite-dimensional realization theory, we obtain both necessary…
We study the controllability to trajectories, under positivity constraints on the control or the state, of a one-dimensional heat equation involving the fractional Laplace operator $ (-\partial_x^2)^s$ (with $0<s<1$) on the interval…
In the first part of this paper we introduced an algorithm that uses reachable set approximation to approximate the minimum time function of linear control problems. To illustrate the error estimates and to demonstrate differences to other…
An alternative formulation for the controllability problem of single input linear positive systems is presented. Driven by many industrial applications, this formulations focuses on the case where the region of interest is only a subset of…
In most studies for the quantification of the third thermodynamic law, the minimum temperature which can be achieved with a long but finite-time process scales as a negative power of the process duration. In this article, we use our recent…
In this note we study the control problem for the heat equation on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$, with control set $\omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition (called $(\gamma, a)$-\emph{thickness}) on $\omega$…
The paper puts forward sufficient conditions for local controllability of a control dynamical system. The results obtained are meaningful in the case when the linear approximation to this system is not completely controllable. As a…
This paper deals with the numerical computation of boundary null controls for the 1D wave equation with a potential. The goal is to compute an approximation of controls that drive the solution from a prescribed initial state to zero at a…
In this work we analyse the small-time reachability properties of a nonlinear parabolic equation, by means of a bilinear control, posed on a torus of arbitrary dimension $d$. Under a saturation hypothesis on the control operators, we show…
We study the global approximate controllability properties of a one dimensional semilinear reaction-diffusion equation governed via the coefficient of the reaction term. It is assumed that both the initial and target states admit no more…
This paper focuses on boundary approximate controllability under positivity constraints of a wide range of infinite-dimensional control systems. We develop frequency domain controllability criteria. Firstly, we derive a controllability…
This article is devoted to analyze control properties for the heat equation with singular potential $-\mu/|x|^2$ arising at the boundary of a smooth domain $\Omega\subset \rr^N$, $N\geq 1$. This problem was firstly studied by Vancostenoble…
The goal of this paper is to analyze control properties of the parabolic equation with variable coefficients in the principal part and with a singular inverse-square potential:\,$\partial_tu(x,t)-{\rm div}(p(x)\nabla…
In this paper, we study approximate and exact controllability of the linear difference equation $x(t) = \sum\_{j=1}^N A\_j x(t - \Lambda\_j) + B u(t)$ in $L^2$, with $x(t) \in \mathbb C^d$ and $u(t) \in \mathbb C^m$, using as a basic tool a…
An optimal boundary control problem for the one-dimensional heat equation is considered. The objective functional includes a standard quadratic terminal observation, a Tikhonov regularization term with regularization parameter $\nu$, and…
In this paper, we present some controllability results for the heat equation in the framework of hierarchic control. We present a Stackelberg strategy combining the concept of controllability with robustness: the main control (the leader)…
In this paper, we define four different notions of controllability of physical interest for multilevel quantum mechanical systems. These notions involve the possibility of driving the evolution operator as well as the state of the system.…
The aim of this work is to present some strategies to solve numerically controllability problems for the two-dimensional heat equation, the Stokes equations and the Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The main idea…