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This paper presents a safe stabilization of the Stefan PDE model with a moving boundary governed by a high-order dynamics. We consider a parabolic PDE with a time-varying domain governed by a second-order response with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Shumon Koga , Miroslav Krstic

To stabilize PDE models, control laws require space-dependent functional gains mapped by nonlinear operators from the PDE functional coefficients. When a PDE is nonlinear and its "pseudo-coefficient" functions are state-dependent, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Maxence Lamarque , Luke Bhan , Rafael Vazquez , Miroslav Krstic

A dynamic backstepping method is proposed to design controllers for nonlinear systems in the pure-feedback form, for which the traditional backstepping method suffers from solving the implicit nonlinear algebraic equation. The idea of this…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Sheng Zhang , Wei-qi Qian

The paper addresses the boundary control of a class of hyperbolic PDEs, based on an equivalent representation in terms of an integral-difference equation. The situation is considered where direct compensation of reflection terms induces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Wim Michiels , Federico Bribiesca-Argomedo , Jean Auriol

In this paper, we design a controller for an interconnected system where a linear Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) is actuated through a linear parabolic heat equation. These dynamics arise in various applications, such as coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Gabriel Velho , Jean Auriol , Islam Boussaada , Riccardo Bonalli

In this paper, we investigate the rapid stabilization of N-layer Timoshenko composite beams with anti-damping and anti-stiffness at the uncontrolled boundaries. The problem of stabilization for a two-layer composite beam has been previously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Guangwei Chen , Rafael Vazquez , Junfei Qiao , Miroslav Krstic

In the present work, we consider nonlinear control systems for which there exist structural obstacles to the design of classical continuous backstepping feedback laws. We conceive feedback laws such that the origin of the closed-loop system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Humberto Stein Shiromoto , Vincent Andrieu , Christophe Prieur

Despite the extensive body of work on backstepping for one-dimensional PDEs, results in higher dimensions remain comparatively limited. Most available methods either exploit particular symmetries of the PDE or address problems posed on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja

The problem of stabilization of a system of coupled PDEs of the forth-order by means of boundary control is investigated. The considered setup arises from the classical Euler-Bernoulli beam model, and constitutes a generalization of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Andrea Cristofaro , Francesco Ferrante

We present an optimization-based framework for analysis and control of linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with spatially varying coefficients without discretization or numerical approximation. For controller synthesis,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Aditya Gahlawat , Matthew M. Peet

We tackle the boundary control and estimation problems for a class of viscous Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs, considering bilateral actuation and sensing, i.e., at the two boundaries of a 1-D spatial domain. First, we solve the nonlinear trajectory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis , Rafael Vazquez

We consider a one-dimensional controlled reaction-diffusion equation, where the control acts on the boundary and is subject to a constant delay. Such a model is a paradigm for more general parabolic systems coupled with a transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Delphine Bresch-Pietri , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

Backstepping design for boundary linear PDE is formulated as a convex optimization problem. Some classes of parabolic PDEs and a first-order hyperbolic PDE are studied, with particular attention to non-strict feedback structures. Based on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Pedro Ascencio , Alessandro Astolfi , Thomas Parisini

In this paper, a delay compensation design method based on PDE backstepping is developed for a two-dimensional reaction-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) with bilateral input delays. The PDE is defined in a rectangular domain,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Dandan Guan , Yanmei Chen , Jie Qi , Linglong Du

We present a predictive feedback control method for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with one boundary control input. Assuming exact model knowledge, convergence to the origin, or tracking at the uncontrolled boundary, are achieved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Timm Strecker , Ole Morten Aamo , Michael Cantoni

A novel approach to design the feedback control based on past states is proposed for hybrid stochastic differential equations (HSDEs). This new theorem builds up the connection between the delay feedback control and the control function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Junhao Hu , Wei Liu , Feiqi Deng , Xuerong Mao

This paper develops a control and estimation design for the one-phase Stefan problem. The Stefan problem represents a liquid-solid phase transition as time evolution of a temperature profile in a liquid-solid material and its moving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Miroslav Krstic

A PDE-based control concept is developed to deploy a multi-agent system into desired formation profiles. The dynamic model is based on a coupled linear, time-variant parabolic distributed parameter system. By means of a particular coupling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Gerhard Freudenthaler , Thomas Meurer

This paper deals with the problem of boundary stabilization of first-order n\times n inhomogeneous quasilinear hyperbolic systems. A backstepping method is developed. The main result supplements the previous works on how to design…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Long Hu , Rafael Vazquez , Florent Di Meglio , Miroslav Krstic

This paper presents bilateral control laws for one-dimensional(1-D) linear 2x2 hyperbolic first-order systems (with spatially varying coefficients). Bilateral control means there are two actuators at each end of the domain. This situation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Wei Sun , Jing Li , Liangyu Xu