The paper presents an approach to flatness-based control design for hyperbolic multi-input systems, building upon the hyperbolic controller form (HCF). The transformation into HCF yields a simplified system representation that considerably facilitates the design of state feedback controllers for trajectory tracking. The proposed concept is demonstrated for a Timoshenko beam and validated through numerical simulations, demonstrating trajectory tracking and closed-loop stability.
@article{arxiv.2603.29490,
title = {Flatness-based control of a Timoshenko beam},
author = {Simon Schmidt and Nicole Gehring and Abdurrahman Irscheid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.29490},
year = {2026}
}
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Accepted at European Control Conference (ECC 2026)