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We study the Stackelberg-Nash null controllability of a coupled system governed by two linear forward stochastic parabolic equations. The system includes one leader control localized in a subset of the domain, two additional leader controls…
The general theory on exact boundary controllability for general first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems requires that the characteristic speeds of system do not vanish. This paper deals with exact boundary controllability, when this is…
In this Note, we review the main existing results, methods, and some key open problems on the controllability of nonlinear hyperbolic and parabolic equations. Especially, we describe our recent universal approach to solve the local…
In the present article we study the stabilization of first-order linear integro-differential hyperbolic equations. For such equations we prove that the stabilization in finite time is equivalent to the exact controllability property. The…
In this paper, we are concerned with local controllability properties of degenerate parabolic equations in bounded domains that evolve in time. More precisely, we deal with the exact controllability to a positive trajectory of a…
We prove the internal controllability of some systems of two coupled wave equations in one space dimension, with one control, under certain conditions on the coupling. To do this we apply the "fictitious control method" in two cases:…
We consider a $2\times 2$ system of parabolic equations with first and zeroth coupling and establish a Carleman estimate by extra data of only one component without data of initial values. Then we apply the Carleman estimate to inverse…
In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…
This paper deals with the insensitizing controllability property of the quasilinear parabolic equation with dynamic boundary conditions. This problem can be reformulated as a null controllability problem for a cascade quasilinear system…
This paper examines the impulse controllability of degenerate singular parabolic equations through a modern framework focused on finite-time stabilization. Furthermore, we provide an explicit estimate for the exponential decay of the…
We derive in a direct and rather straightforward way the null controllability of the N-dimensional heat equation in a bounded cylinder with boundary control at one end of the cylinder. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists…
In this paper we consider a constrained parabolic optimal control problem. The cost functional is quadratic and it combines the distance of the trajectory of the system from the desired evolution profile together with the cost of a control.…
Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given as an ordinary differential equation,…
This paper aims to address an interesting open problem posed in the paper ''Singular Optimal Control for a Transport-Diffusion Equation'' of Sergio Guerrero and Gilles Lebeau in 2007. The problem involves studying the null-controllability…
The main objective of this paper is to study the hierarchical exact controllability for a parabolic equation with Hardy potential by Stackelberg-Nash strategy. In linear case, we employ Lax-Milgram theorem to prove the existence of an…
This work is devoted to prove the local null controllability of the Burgers-$\alpha$ model. The state is the solution to a regularized Burgers equation, where the transport term is of the form $zy_x$,…
This paper gives a summary of a body of work at the intersection of control theory and smooth nonlinear dynamics. The main idea is to transfer the concept of uniform hyperbolicity, central to the theory of smooth dynamical systems, to…
We study the null controllability for a degenerate/singular wave equation with drift in non divergence form. In particular, considering a control localized on the non degenerate boundary point, we provide some conditions for the boundary…
We develop an asymptotical control theory for one of the simplest distributed oscillating systems, namely, for a closed string under a bounded load applied to a single distinguished point. We find exact classes of string states that admit…
This paper deals with the null-controllability of a system of {\em mixed parabolic-elliptic pdes} at any given time $T>0$. More precisely, we consider the \textit{Kuramoto-Sivashinsky--Korteweg-de Vries equation} coupled with a second order…