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We obviate the use of observers for the purpose of output feedback tracking control of Lagrangian systems and solve some long-standing yet well-documented open problems. As often implemented in control practice, we replace unavailable…
The KP-I equation \[ (u_t-2uu_x+\tfrac{1}{2}(\beta-\tfrac{1}{3})u_{xxx})_x -u_{yy}=0 \] arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with strong surface tension (Bond number $\beta>1/3$). This equation admits ---…
The stability of feedback systems consisting of linear time-delay plants and PID controllers has been investigated for many years by means of several methods, of which the Nyquist criterion, a generalization of the Hermite-Biehler Theorem,…
Reflection of an obliquely incident solitary wave onto a vertical wall is studied analytically and experimentally. We use the Kadomtsev-Petviashivili (KP) equation to analyze the evolution and its asymptotic state. Laboratory experiments…
This paper presents an output feedback control law for the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The control design is based on the backstepping method and the introduction of an appropriate observer. The local exponential stability of the…
In this article we prove global propagation of analyticity in finite time for solutions of semilinear Schr\"odinger equations with analytic nonlinearity from a region $\omega$ where the Geometric Control Condition holds. Our approach…
We consider the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equations posed on $\mathbb{R}^2$. For both equations, we provide sequential in time asymptotic descriptions of solutions, of arbitrarily large data, inside regions not containing lumps or line…
We prove new well-posedness results for dispersion-generalized Kadomtsev--Petviashvili I equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$, which family links the classical KP-I equation with the fifth order KP-I equation. For strong enough dispersion, we show…
This paper studies unique continuation for weakly degenerate parabolic equations in one space dimension. A new Carleman estimate of local type is obtained to deduce that all solutions that vanish on the degeneracy set, together with their…
In this article, we give a completely constructive proof of the observability/controllability of the wave equation on a compact manifold under optimal geometric conditions. This contrasts with the original proof of Bardos-Lebeau-Rauch,…
In this work, we analyze the internal and boundary stabilization of the Cahn-Hilliard and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations under saturated feedback control. We conduct our study through the spectral analysis of the associated linear operator.…
We propose a new controllability property for linear time varying control systems in finite dimension: the nonuniform complete controllability, which is halfway between the classical Kalman's properties of complete controllability and…
In this work, we address the existence of insensitizing controls for a nonlinear coupled system of fourth- and second-order parabolic equations known as the stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky model. The main idea is to look for controls such…
Time-delayed feedback control, attributed to Pyragas (1992 Physics Letters 170(6) 421-428), is a method known to stabilise periodic orbits in low dimensional chaotic dynamical systems. A system of the form…
Quantitative unique continuation principles for multiscale structures are an important ingredient in a number applications, e.g. random Schr\"odinger operators and control theory. We review recent results and announce new ones regarding…
The $b$-family-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation ($b$-KP) is a two dimensional generalization of the $b$-family equation. In this paper, we study the spectral stability of the one-dimensional small-amplitude periodic traveling waves with…
We consider the Cauchy problem associated to the recently derived higher order hamiltonian model for unidirectional water waves and prove global existence for given data in the Sobolev space $H^s$, $s\geq 1$. We also prove an ill-posedness…
We show uniqueness in law for the critical SPDE \begin{eqnarray} \label{qq1} dX_t = AX_t dt + (-A)^{1/2}F(X(t))dt + dW_t,\;\; X_0 =x \in H, \end{eqnarray} where $A$ $ : \text{dom}(A) \subset H \to H$ is a negative definite self-adjoint…
This study aims to construct a stable, high-order compact finite difference method for solving Sobolev-type equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions in one-space dimension. Approximation of higher-order mixed derivatives in some…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the KdV hierarchy -- a family of integrable PDEs with a Lax pair representation involving one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators -- under a local in time boundedness assumption on the solution. For…