Null controllability and global blowup controllability of ordinary differential equations with feedback controls

This paper concerns the problem of feedback null controllability and blowup controllability with feedback controls for ordinary differential equations. First, we study the feedback null controllability on a time-varying ordinary differential system by unbounded feedback operators. Then, the global exact blowup controllability with feedback controls is derived on a time-invariant ordinary differential system. Finally, we obtain the approximate null controllability by bounded feedback operators, and get the approximate blowup controllability with feedback controls for ordinary differential equations.     

Some results on the controllability of forward stochastic heat equations with control on the drift

In this paper, we establish the null/approximate controllability for forward stochastic heat equations with control on the drift. The null controllability is obtained by a time iteration method and an observability estimate on partial sums of eigenfunctions for elliptic operators. As a consequence of the null controllability, we obtain the observability estimate for backward stochastic heat equations, which leads to a unique continuation property for backward stochastic heat equations, and hence the desired approximate controllability for forward stochastic heat equations. It deserves to point out that one needs to introduce a little stronger assumption on the controller for the approximate controllability of forward stochastic heat equations than that for the null controllability. This is a new phenomenon arising in the study of the controllability problem for stochastic heat equations.     

Controllability of Some Nonlinear Systems in Hilbert Spaces

In this paper, several abstract results concerning the controllability of semilinear evolution systems are obtained. First, approximate controllability conditions for semilinear systems are obtained by means of a fixed-point theorem of the Rothe type; in this case, the compactness of the linear operator is assumed. Next, the exact controllability of semilinear systems with nonlinearities having small Lipschitz constants is derived by means of the Banach fixed-point theorem; in this case, the compactness of the operators is not assumed. In both cases, it is proven that the controllability of the linear system implies the controllability of the associated semilinear system. Finally, these abstract results are applied to the controllability of the semilinear wave and heat equations.     

Novel Controllability Conditions for a Class of Singularly-Perturbed Systems with Small State Delays

A singularly-perturbed linear time-dependent controlled system with small pointwise and distributed delays in the state variable is considered. Two simpler parameter-free systems, the slow and fast ones, can be associated with the original system. It was established in the literature that the Euclidean space controllability of the original system, valid for all sufficiently small values of the parameter of singular perturbations, follows from the controllability properties of the slow and fast systems. It also was established that such a connection between the controllability properties of the original system and the slow and fast systems is correct, in general, only in one direction. Namely, the controllability of the slow and fast systems provides the controllability of the original system, while the controllability of the original system not always yields the controllability of both the slow and fast systems. In this paper, we consider the original system such that the respective fast system is uncontrollable, meaning that the previously established controllability conditions are not applicable to this original system. In this case, novel parameter-free sufficient conditions for the Euclidean space controllability of the original system, robust with respect to the small parameter of singular perturbations, are derived. Illustrative examples are presented.     

一类混杂动态系统的能控性(Ⅲ)——含多时滞的情形

首次将时滞现象引入到线性切换系统的模型中,研究含有时滞线性切换系统的能控性及其判定条件。全部工作由三部分组成。第Ⅲ部分,主要研究含多时滞的线性切换系统的能控性及其判定规则。首先给出周期型系统的单周能控性和多周期能控性的定义和充要条件,其次给出非周期系统的能控性的定义和充要条件。最后,研究时滞大小不一致的情形,指出能控性与时滞大小无关。     

Relative controllability of stochastic nonlinear systems with delay in control

The existence of solutions to systems is a natural premise to carry our study about controllability. Under the basic and readily verified conditions to guarantee the existence of the solutions to a system, in this paper, we prove the relative controllability (approximate controllability ) of the stochastic differential systems with delay in control. Sufficient conditions are given firstly for the relative controllability and relative approximate controllability in finite dimensional spaces, and these results are then generalized to infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Finally, examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

Some exact controllability results for the linear KdV equation and uniform controllability in the zero-dispersion limit

In this paper, we deal with controllability properties of linear and nonlinear Korteweg-de Vries equations in a bounded interval. The main part of this paper is a result of uniform controllability of a linear KdV equation in the limit of zero-dispersion. Moreover, we establish a result of null controllability for the linear equation via the left Dirichlet boundary condition, and of exact controllability via both Dirichlet boundary conditions. As a consequence, we obtain some local exact controllability results for the nonlinear KdV equation. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Controllability of nonlinear third order dispersion equation with distributed delay

This paper is concerned with the exact controllability of nonlinear third order dispersion equation with infinite distributed delay. Sufficient conditions are formulated and proved for the exact controllability of this system. Without imposing a compactness condition on the semigroup, we establish controllability results by using a fixed point analysis approach.     

A controllability minimum principle

A controllability minimum principle and two associated transversality conditions are presented, dealing with the controllability of nonlinear systems. The theorems represent necessary conditions for a control function to generate a system path which lies in the boundary of the set of points that are controllable to a target. The theorems presented here are controllability counterparts to Pontryagin's maximum principle, and undoubtedly these results will seem familiar or may have occurred to other researchers in the area of optimal control. The purpose of this paper is to make the distinction explicit and to establish the validity of these controllability theorems on their own merits. The theorems are demonstrated using a simple example and the principal result (a controllability minimum principle) is shown to be equivalent to the Kalman controllability criterion for linear systems.     

Boundary controllability of parabolic coupled equations

This paper is concerned with the boundary controllability of non-scalar linear parabolic systems. More precisely, two coupled one-dimensional parabolic equations are considered. We show that, in this framework, boundary controllability is not equivalent and is more complex than distributed controllability. In our main result, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the null controllability.     

The Lie algebra structure and controllability of spin systems

In this paper, we study the controllability properties and the Lie algebra structure of networks of particles with spin immersed in an electro-magnetic field. We relate the Lie algebra structure to the properties of a graph whose nodes represent the particles and an edge connects two nodes if and only if the interaction between the two corresponding particles is active. For networks with different gyromagnetic ratios, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition of controllability in terms of the properties of the above-mentioned graph and describe the Lie algebra structure in every case. For these systems all the controllability notions, including the possibility of driving the evolution operator and/or the state, are equivalent. For general networks (with possibly equal gyromagnetic ratios), we give a sufficient condition of controllability. A general form of interaction among the particles is assumed which includes both Ising and Heisenberg models as special cases. Assuming Heisenberg interaction we provide an analysis of low-dimensional cases (number of particles less than or equal to three) which includes necessary and sufficient controllability conditions as well as a study of their Lie algebra structure. This also provides an example of quantum mechanical systems where controllability of the state is verified while controllability of the evolution operator is not.     

Controllability and controllability with prescribed controls

In this paper, a controllability condition with prescribed controls (that is, a controllability condition for which the initial and final value of the control are givena priori), for classes of nonlinear control process with different controllability criteria, is obtained. The result is achieved by using the fixed-point argument as a crucial tool.     

一类混杂动态系统的能控性(Ⅱ)——含单时滞的情形

首次将时滞现象引入到线性切换系统的模型中,研究含时滞的线性切换系统的能控性及其判定条件。全部工作由三部分组成。第Ⅱ部分,主要研究含单时滞的线性切换系统的能控性及其判定准则。首先给出周期型系统的单周期能控性和多周期能控性的定义和充要条件,其次给出非周期系统的能控性的定义和充要条件。     

A new relation between the condensation index of complex sequences and the null controllability of parabolic systems

In this note, we present a new result that relates the condensation index of a sequence of complex numbers with the null controllability of parabolic systems. We show that a minimal time is required for controllability. The results are used to prove the boundary controllability of some coupled parabolic equations.     

Boundary controllability for the quasi-linear wave equations coupled in parallel

We study the boundary exact controllability for a system of two quasi-linear wave equations coupled in parallel with springs and viscous terms. We prove the locally exact controllability around superposition equilibria under some checkable geometrical conditions. We then establish the globally exact controllability in such a way that the state of the coupled quasi-linear system moves from a superposition equilibrium in one location to a superposition equilibrium in another location. Our results show that exact controllability is geometrical characters of a Riemannian metric, given by the coefficients and superposition equilibria of the system.     

Output controllability and optimal output control of positive fractional order linear discrete system with multiple delays in state, input and output

The article concerns output controllability and optimal output control of positive fractional order discrete linear systems with multiple delays in state, input and output. Necessary and sufficient conditions for output reachability (output controllability from zero initial conditions) and null output controllability (output controllability to zero final output) are given and proven. We also prove that the positive system is output controllable if it is output reachable and null output controllable with the output reachability index is equal or less than the null output controllability index. Sufficient conditions for the solvability of the optimal output control problem are given. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.     

Boundary controllability of Maxwell's equations with nonzero conductivity inside a cube, I: Spectral controllability

This is a first paper in a series of two. In both papers, we consider the question of control of Maxwell's equations in a homogeneous medium with positive conductivity by means of boundary surface currents. The domain under consideration is a cube, where the conductivity is allowed to take on any nonnegative value. An additional restriction imposed in order to make this problem more suitable for practical implementations is that the controls are applied over only one face of the cube. In this paper, the method of moments is employed to establish spectral controllability for the above case (meaning that any finite combination of eigenfunctions is controllable). In the companion paper [S.S. Krigman, C.E. Wayne, Boundary controllability of Maxwell's equations with nonzero conductivity inside a cube, II: Lack of exact controllability and controllability for very smooth solutions, J. Math. Anal. Appl. (2006), doi:10.1016/j.jmaa2006.02.102] it will be established, by modifying the calculations in [H.O. Fattorini, Estimates for sequences biorthogonal to certain complex exponentials and boundary control of the wave equation, in: New Trends in Systems Analysis, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Versailles, 1976, in: Lecture Notes in Control and Inform. Sci., vol. 2, Springer, Berlin, 1977, pp. 111-124], that exact controllability fails for this geometry regardless of the size of the conductivity term. However, we will also establish in [S.S. Krigman, C.E. Wayne, Boundary controllability of Maxwell's equations with nonzero conductivity inside a cube, II: Lack of exact controllability and controllability for very smooth solutions, J. Math. Anal. Appl. (2006), doi:10.1016/j.jmaa2006.02.102] controllability of solutions that are smooth enough that the Fourier coefficients of their initial data decay at a suitable exponential rate.     

Controllability of Second Order Impulsive Neutral Functional Differential Inclusions with Infinite Delay

This paper is concerned with controllability of a partial neutral functional differential inclusion of second order with impulse effect and infinite delay. We introduce a new phase space to prove the controllability of an inclusion which consists of an impulse effect with infinite delay. We claim that the phase space considered by different authors is not correct. We establish the controllability of mild solutions using a fixed point theorem for contraction multi-valued maps and without assuming compactness of the family of cosine operators.     

Controllability for systems governed by semilinear evolution inclusions without compactness

In this paper we study the controllability for a class of semilinear differential inclusions in Banach spaces. Since we assume the regularity of the nonlinear part with respect to the weak topology, we do not require the compactness of the evolution operator generated by the linear part. As well we are not posing any conditions on the multivalued nonlinearity expressed in terms of measures of noncompactness. We are considering the usual assumption on the controllability of the associated linear problem. Notice that, in infinite dimensional spaces, the above mentioned compactness of the evolution operator and linear controllability condition are in contradiction with each other. We suppose that the nonlinear term has convex, closed, bounded values and a weakly sequentially closed graph when restricted to its second argument. This regularity setting allows us to solve controllability problem under various growth conditions. As application, a controllability result for hyperbolic integro-differential equations and inclusions is obtained. In particular, we consider controllability of a system arising in a model of nonlocal spatial population dispersal and a system governed by the second order one-dimensional telegraph equation.     

Controllability of switched DAEs: The single switch case

We study controllability of switched DAEs and formulate a definition of controllability in the behavioral sense. In order to characterize controllability for switched DAEs we first present new characterizations of controllability of non-switched DAEs based on the Wong-sequences. Afterwards a first result concerning the single-switch case is presented. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)