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Robust output tracking is addressed in this paper for a heat equation with Neumann boundary conditions and anti-collocated boundary input and output. The desired reference tracking is solved using the well-known flatness and Lyapunov…

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This paper provides global exponential stabilization results by means of boundary feedback control for 1-D nonlinear unstable reaction-diffusion Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with nonlinearities of superlinear growth. The class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic

We consider the linear heat equation with a Wentzell-type boundary condition and a Dirichlet control. Such a boundary condition can be reformulated as one of dynamic type. First, we formulate the boundary controllability problem of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 S. E. Chorfi , M. I. Ismailov , L. Maniar , I. Öner

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

Linearized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation models various physical phenomena and the stability controls of them are important. In this paper, we study the control of the LCGLE with a simultaneously space and time dependent coefficient by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Junji Jia

For parabolic PDEs, we present a new certainty equivalence-based adaptive boundary control scheme with a least-squares identifier of an event-triggering type, where the triggering is based on the size of the regulation error (as opposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic , Katerina Chrysafi

We present a frequency domain based $H_\infty$-control strategy to solve boundary control problems for systems governed by parabolic or hyperbolic partial differential equation, where controllers are constrained to be physically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Pierre Apkarian , Dominikus Noll

This paper develops output feedback boundary control to mitigate traffic congestion of a unidirectional two-lane freeway segment. The macroscopic traffic dynamics are described by the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model respectively for both the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Huan Yu , Miroslav Krstic

This paper proposes an imitation learning (IL) framework for synthesizing neural network (NN) controllers that achieve boundary stabilization of systems governed by reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs). The plant is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Paulo Henrique Foganholo Biazetto , Mirko Fiacchini , Christophe Prieur , Gustavo Artur de Andrade

Understanding the dynamics of wildfire is crucial for developing management and intervention strategies. Mathematical and computational models can be used to improve our understanding of wildfire processes and dynamics. This paper presents…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Cordula Reisch , Adrián Navas-Montilla , Ilhan Özgen-Xian

We consider the inverse multiphase Stefan problem, where information on the heat flux on the fixed boundary is missing and must be found along with the temperature and free boundaries. Optimal control framework is pursued, where boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Ugur G. Abdulla , Bruno Poggi

For quasilinear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) that exhibit finite-time blow up in open loop, i.e., under null boundary conditions, we provide an estimate of the region of attraction under cubic feedback laws applied at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja , M Maghenem , E Witrant , M Krstic

The primary focus of this paper is to establish the internal null controllability for the one-dimensional heat equation featuring dynamic boundary conditions. This achievement is realized by introducing a new Carleman estimate and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 El Mustapha Ait Ben Hassi , Mariem Jakhoukh , Lahcen Maniar , Walid Zouhair

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have gained significant attention for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. These methods approximate the domain by replacing sharp boundaries with a diffuse layer of thickness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Toai Luong , Tadele Mengesha , Steven M. Wise , Ming Hei Wong

Reliable wildfire spread prediction is vital for risk-aware emergency planning, yet most deep learning models lack principled uncertainty quantification (UQ). Further, for boundary-sensitive cases like wildfire spread, evaluating models…

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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Kim Dang Phung , Gengsheng Wang , Yashan Xu

Considering a wave-reaction-diffusion PDE cascade system with wave Neumann control, we first establish controllability properties in a suitable Hilbert space depending on the coupling cascade term. This is done by deriving an observability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

We describe a general multiplier method to obtain boundary stabilization of the wave equation by means of a (linear or quasi-linear) Neumann feedback. This also enables us to get Dirichlet boundary control of the wave equation. This method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-24 Pierre Cornilleau , Jean-Pierre Loheac

In this paper, a backstepping control of the one-phase Stefan Problem, which is a 1-D diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a time varying spatial domain described by an ordinary differential equation (ODE), is studied. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Shumon Koga , Mamadou Diagne , Shuxia Tang , Miroslav Krstic

We present a formal mathematical multi-agent modeling framework for autonomously combating a wildland fire with unmanned aerial vehicles. The problem is formulated as a collaboration between a drone and a helicopter equipped with a tanker.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Lawrence Thul , Warren B Powell