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The problem of the exact bounded control of oscillations of the two-dimensional wave equation is considered. Control force is applied to the boundary of the membrane, which is located in a domain on a plane. The goal of the control is to…
The paper deals with the controllability of a degenerate beam equation. In particular, we assume that the left end of the beam is fixed, while a suitable control $f$ acts on the right end of it. As a first step we prove the existence of a…
The Euler's equations describe the motion of inviscid fluid. In the case of shallow water, when a perturbative asymtotic expansion of the Euler's equations is taken (to a certain order of smallness of the scale parameters), relations to…
We consider optimal control of the scalar wave equation where the control enters as a coefficient in the principal part. Adding a total variation penalty allows showing existence of optimal controls, which requires continuity results for…
This paper is devoted to studying the null and approximate controllability of two linear coupled parabolic equations posed on a smooth domain of R^N (N>1) with coupling terms of zero and first orders and one control localized in some…
This paper studies the exponential stabilization on infinite dimensional system with impulse controls, where impulse instants appear periodically. The first main result shows that exponential stabilizability of the control system with a…
We consider an optimal control problem for a system governed by a Volterra integral equation with impulsive terms. The impulses act on both the state and the control; the control consists of switchings at discrete times. The cost functional…
We investigate an everywhere defined notion of solution for control systems whose dynamics depend nonlinearly on the control $u$ and state $x,$ and are affine in the time derivative $\dot u.$ For this reason, the input $u,$ which is allowed…
In this paper we introduce some new concepts for second-order hyperbolic equations: two-point boundary value problem, global exact controllability and exact controllability. For several kinds of important linear and nonlinear wave equations…
Approximate controllability of the Euler equations is investigated by means of a finite set of actuators. It is proven that approximate controllability holds if we can find a saturating subset of actuators. The notion of saturating set is…
In this paper, we continue the study of some controllability issues for the forward stochastic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The main novelty in the present paper consists of considering only one control without extra…
The paper extends an impulsive control-theoretical framework towards dynamic systems in the space of measures. We consider a transport equation describing the time-evolution of a conservative "mass" (probability measure), which represents…
This paper deals with the stabilization of an anti-stable string equation with Dirichlet actuation where the instability appears because of the uncontrolled boundary condition. Then, infinitely many unstable poles are generated and an…
In this paper, we consider the 1D wave equation where the spatial domain is a bounded interval. Assuming the initial conditions to be known, we are here interested in identifying an unknown source term, while we take the Neumann derivative…
The main aim of this paper is to provide a new feedback law for the heat equations in a bounded domain $\Omega $ with Dirichlet boundary condition. Two constraints will be compulsory: First, The controls are active in a subdomain of $\Omega…
This work is concerned with the optimal control problems governed by a 1D wave equation with variable coefficients and the control spaces $\mathcal M_T$ of either measure-valued functions $L_{w^*}^2(I,\mathcal M(\Omega))$ or vector measures…
This paper is concerned with the study of the wave equation on compact surfaces and locally distributed damping. We study the case where the damping is effective in a well-chosen subset of arbitrarily small measure.
We explore further controllability problems through a standard least square approach. By setting up a suitable error functional $E$, and putting $m(\ge0)$ for the infimum, we interpret approximate controllability by asking $m=0$, while…
In this article, we first prove quantitative estimates associated to the unique continuation theorems for operators with partially analytic coefficients of Tataru, Robbiano-Zuily and H\"ormander. We provide local stability estimates that…
In this work, we investigate the approximate controllability of a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with Robin boundary conditions. The degeneracy occurs at one endpoint of the spatial domain, and we apply an impulsive…