This paper presents a relaxed scheme for controller synthesis of continuous- time systems in the Takagi-Sugeno form, based on non-quadratic Lyapunov functions and a non-PDC control law. The relaxations here provided allow state and input dependence of the membership functions’ derivatives, as well as independence on initial conditions when input constraints are needed. Moreover, the controller synthesis is attainable via linear matrix inequalities, which are efficiently solved by commercially available...

In this paper we present a solution to the decoupling problem with stability of linear multivariable systems with 2 outputs, using nonregular static state feedback. The problem is tackled using an algebraic-polynomial approach, and the main idea is to test the conditions for a decoupling compensator with stability to be feedback realizable. It is shown that the problem has a solution if and only if Morse’s list $I_2$ is greater than or equal to the infinite and unstable structure of the proper and stable...

The parabolic equations driven by linearly multiplicative Gaussian noise are stabilizable in probability by linear feedback controllers with support in a suitably chosen open subset of the domain. This procedure extends to Navier − Stokes equations with multiplicative noise. The exact controllability is also discussed.

An upper bound for the complex structured singular value related to a linear time-invariant system over all frequencies is given. It is in the form of the spectral radius of the ${\mathscr{H}}_{\infty }$-norm matrix of SISO input-output channels of the system when uncertainty blocks are SISO. In the case of MIMO uncertainty blocks the upper bound is the $\infty$-norm of a special non-negative matrix derived from ${\mathscr{H}}_{\infty }$-norms of SISO channels of the system. The upper bound is fit into the inequality relation between the results of...

This paper proposes a new approach to designing a relatively simple algorithmic fault detection system that is potentially applicable in embedded diagnostic structures. The method blends the LQ control principle with checking and evaluating unavoidable degradation in the sequence of discrete-time LQ control performance index values due to faults in actuators, sensors or system dynamics. Design conditions are derived, and direct computational forms of the algorithms are given. A simulation example...

Nonlinear Trajectory Generation (NTG), developed by Mark Milam, is a software algorithm used to generate trajectories of constrained nonlinear systems in real-time. The goal of this paper is to present an approach to make NTG more userfriendly. To accomplish this, we have programmed a Graphical User Interface (GUI) in Java, using object oriented design, which wraps the NTG software and allows the user to quickly and efficiently alter the parameters of NTG. This new program, called NTGsim, eliminates...

In this paper we study a linear population dynamics model. In this model, the birth process is described by a nonlocal term and the initial distribution is unknown. The aim of this paper is to use a controllability result of the adjoint system for the computation of the density of individuals at some time $T$.

We are concerned with the null controllability of a linear coupled population dynamics system or the so-called prey-predator model with Holling type I functional response of predator wherein both equations are structured in age and space. It is worth mentioning that in our case, the space variable is viewed as the “gene type” of population. The studied system is with two different dispersion coefficients which depend on the gene type variable and degenerate in the boundary. This system will be governed...

In this paper, we prove the exact null controllability of certain diffusion system by rewriting it as an equivalent nonlinear parabolic integrodifferential equation with variable coefficients in a bounded interval of $ℝ$ with a distributed control acting on a subinterval. We first prove a global null controllability result of an associated linearized integrodifferential equation by establishing a suitable observability estimate for adjoint system with appropriate assumptions on the coefficients. Then...

The goal of this note is to present the results of the references [5] and [4]. We study the null controllability of the parabolic equations associated with the Grushin-type operator ${\partial }_x^2+{\left|x\right|}^{2\gamma }{\partial }_y^2$ ($\gamma \>0$) in the rectangle $(x,y)\in (-1,1)\times (0,1)$ or with the Kolmogorov-type operator $v^{\gamma }{\partial }_{x}f+{\partial }_v^{2}f$ ($\gamma \in \{1,2\}$) in the rectangle $(x,v)\in 𝕋\times (-1,1)$, under an additive control supported in an open subset $\omega$ of the space domain.We prove that the Grushin-type equation is null controllable in any positive time for $\gamma \<1$ and that there is no time for which it is null controllable for $\gamma \>1$....

We study the null controllability of the parabolic equation associated with the Grushin-type operator $A={\partial }_x^2+{\left|x\right|}^{2\gamma }{\partial }_{\gamma }^2,(\gamma >0)$, in the rectangle $\Omega =(-1,1)\times (0,1)$, under an additive control supported in an open subset $\omega$ of $\Omega$. We prove that the equation is null controllable in any positive time for $\gamma <1$ and that there is no time for which it is null controllable for $\gamma >1$. In the transition regime $\gamma =1$ and when $\omega$ is a strip $\omega =(a,b)\times (0,1)(0<a,b\le 1)$), a positive minimal time is required for null controllability. Our approach is based on the fact that, thanks to the particular...

The internal and boundary exact null controllability of nonlinear convective heat equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions are studied. The methods we use combine Kakutani fixed point theorem, Carleman estimates for the backward adjoint linearized system, interpolation inequalities and some estimates in the theory of parabolic boundary value problems in Lk.