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Null Controllability of the 2D Heat Equation Using Flatness

Optimization and Control 2013-04-22 v1

Abstract

We derive in a direct and rather straightforward way the null controllability of a 2-D heat equation with boundary control. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists in parameterizing the solution and the control by the derivatives of a "flat output". This provides an explicit control law achieving the exact steering to zero. Numerical experiments demonstrate the relevance of the approach.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5426,
  title  = {Null Controllability of the 2D Heat Equation Using Flatness},
  author = {Philippe Martin and Lionel Rosier and Pierre Rouchon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5426},
  year   = {2013}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1303.2344

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