Boundary controllability of integrodifferential systems in Banach spaces

Sufficient conditions for boundary controllability of integrodifferential systems in Banach spaces are established. The results are obtained by using the strongly continuous semigroup theory and the Banach contraction principle. Examples are provided to illustrate the theory.     

Boundary controllability of Maxwell's equations with nonzero conductivity inside a cube, II: Lack of exact controllability and controllability for very smooth solutions

This is a second paper in a two part series. In the prequel, [S.S. Krigman, C.E. Wayne, Boundary controllability of Maxwell's equations with nonzero conductivity inside a cube, I: Spectral controllability, J. Math. Anal. Appl. (2006), doi:10.1016/j.jmaa2006.06.101], we showed that a system of Maxwell's equations for a homogeneous medium in a cube with nonnegative conductivity possesses the property that any finite combination of eigenfunctions is controllable (spectral controllability) by means of boundary surface currents applied over only one face of the cube. In the present paper it is 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 spectral controllability is the strongest result possible for this geometry, since the exact controllability fails regardless of the size of the conductivity term. However, we do establish controllability of solutions that are smooth enough that the Fourier coefficients of their initial data decay at an appropriate exponential rate. This does not contradict the lack of exact controllability since in any Sobolev space there are initial conditions which violate these restrictions.     

Exact controllability for some degenerate wave equations

In this paper, we study one-dimensional linear degenerate wave equations with a distributed controller. We establish observability inequalities for degenerate wave equation by multiplier method. We also deduce the exact controllability for degenerate wave equation by Hilbert uniqueness method when the control acts on the nondegenerate boundary. Moreover, an explicit expression for the controllability time is given.     

Exact Boundary Controllability for a Coupled System of Wave Equations with Neumann Boundary Controls

This paper first shows the exact boundary controllability for a coupled system of wave equations with Neumann boundary controls.In order to establish the corresponding observability inequality,the authors introduce a compact perturbation method which does not depend on the Riesz basis property,but depends only on the continuity of projection with respect to a weaker norm,which is obviously true in many cases of application.Next,in the case of fewer Neumann boundary controls,the non-exact boundary controllability for the initial data with the same level of energy is shown.     

Boundary controllability of Sobolev-type abstract nonlinear integrodifferential systems

Sufficient conditions are established for boundary controllability of various classes of Sobolev-type nonlinear systems including integrodifferential systems in Banach spaces. The results are obtained using the strongly continuous semigroup of operators and the Banach contraction principle. Examples are provided to illustrate the theory.     

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.     

Solvability,controllability, and observability of singular systems

The problems of solvability, controllability, and observability for the singular systemKx(t)=Ax(t)+Bu(t) are studied, whereK is a singular, square matrix andu(t) is a complex vector function sufficiently differentiable. The classical theories of matrix pencils are first related to the solvability of singular systems. Then, the concepts of reachability, controllability, and observability of regular systems are extended to singular systems. Finally, the set of reachable states is described. The proposed matrix conditions for testing the controllability and observability of singular systems are simple and always feasible.     

Exact observability and controllability for a nonsimple elastic rod

In this paper, we prove exact observability, boundary and internal exact controllability results for a nonsimple elastic rod. By the spectral analysis method, it is shown that the considered problem has a sequence of eigenfunctions, which forms a Riesz basis for the state space. The exact observability is proved by application of a modified version of Ingham’s Theorem. Then, via the Hilbert Uniqueness method, we prove a boundary controllability result with only one controller and an internal controllability result.     

Persistent regional null controllability of some degenerate wave equations

This paper is addressed to a study of the persistent regional null controllability problems for one‐dimensional linear degenerate wave equations through a distributed controller. Different from non‐degenerate wave equations, the classical null controllability results do not hold for some degenerate wave equations. Thus, persistent regional null controllability is introduced, which means finding a control such that the corresponding state of the degenerate wave equation may vanish in a suitable subset of the space domain in a period of time. In order to solve this problem, we need to establish the regional null controllability for degenerate wave equations. This problem is reduced to a suitable observability problem of a linear degenerate wave equation. The key point is to choose a suitable multiplier in order to establish this observability inequality. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Boundary regularity for viscosity solutions to degenerate elliptic PDEs

Sufficient conditions are given for the solutions to the (fully nonlinear, degenerate) elliptic equation F(x,u,Du,D²u)=0 in Ω to satisfy |u(x)−u(y)|?Cα|x−y| for some α∈(0,1) when x∈Ω and y∈∂Ω.     

Exact boundary controllability in problems of transmission for the system of electromagneto‐elasticity

This paper considers transmission problem for the system of electromagneto‐elasticity having piecewise constant coefficients in a bounded domain. The result on exact boundary controllability is obtained provided the interfaces, where the coefficients have a jump discontinuity, are all star‐shaped with respect to one and the same point and the coefficients satisfy a certain monotonicity conditions. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

边值系统的能控性与能观测性问题

把抽象系统的能控性和能观测性推广到由强连续双半群描述的抽象边值系统,给出了相应的边值系统能控性的充要条件,并研究了能观测性与能控性之间的对偶关系.最后作为例子,研究了双曲系统能控性.文中所得的结果可用于讨论现代物理系统中出现一类边值系统的能控性与能观测性问题.     

On exact boundary controllability for linearly coupled wave equations

In this paper we study exact boundary controllability for a system of two linear wave equations coupled by lower order terms. We obtain square integrable control of Neuman type for initial state with finite energy, in nonsmooth domains of the plane.     

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.     

分布参数系统能控能观性问题的统一处理及应用

本文的主要目的是介绍一个统一的处理分布参数系统能控能观性问题的方法,并给出该方法在分布参数控制理论中的应用。为此,本文将从一类“类抛物” 偏微分算子（即没有椭圆性条件）的带权恒等式出发,给出所有已知的关于抛物型方程、双曲型方程、Schrödinger 方程和板方程的基于整体Carleman 估计的能控能观性结果。同时,基于该带权的恒等式,本文还给出它在双曲型系统的稳定性问题和在拟线性复Ginzburg-Landau 方程能控能观性等问题中的应用。     

Parabolic Schemes for Quasi-Linear Parabolic and Hyperbolic PDEs via Stochastic Calculus

We consider two quasi-linear initial-value Cauchy problems on ? ^d : a parabolic system and an hyperbolic one. They both have a first order non-linearity of the form φ(t, x, u)·?u, a forcing term h(t, x, u) and an initial condition u ₀ ∈ L ^∞(? ^d ) ∩ C ^∞(? ^d ), where φ (resp. h) is smooth and locally (resp. globally) Lipschitz in u uniformly in (t, x). We prove the existence of a unique global strong solution for the parabolic system. We show the existence of a unique local strong solution for the hyperbolic one and we give a lower bound regarding its blow up time. In both cases, we do not use weak solution theory but a direct construction based on parabolic schemes studied via a stochastic approach and a regularity result for sequences of parabolic operators. The result on the hyperbolic problem is performed by means of a non-classical vanishing viscosity method.     

Boundary controllability of non-linear stochastic differential inclusions

The article is concerned with the boundary controllability of non-linear stochastic differential inclusions in a Banach space. Sufficient conditions for the boundary controllability are obtained by using a fixed point theorem for condensing maps due to Leray–Schauder non-linear alternative.     

Elliptic PDEs with Fibered Nonlinearities

In ℝ ^m ×ℝ ^n−m , endowed with coordinates x=(x′,x″), we consider bounded solutions of the PDE

Exact Boundary Controllability and Exact Boundary Observability for a Coupled System of Quasilinear Wave Equations

Based on the theory of semi-global classical solutions to quasilinear hyperbolic systems, the authors apply a unified constructive method to establish the local exact boundary(null) controllability and the local boundary(weak) observability for a coupled system of 1-D quasilinear wave equations with various types of boundary conditions.