This paper deals with the approximate controllability for the semilinear heat equation in one space dimension. Our aim is to provide an estimate of the cost of the control.
In this paper we establish several results on approximate controllability of a semilinear wave equation by making use of a single multiplicative control. These results are then applied to discuss the exact controllability properties for the one dimensional version of the system at hand. The proof relies on linear semigroup theory and the results on the additive controllability of the semilinear wave equation. The approaches are constructive and provide explicit steering controls. Moreover, in the context of undamped wave equation, the exact controllability is established for a time which is un…
We study several controllability properties for some semilinear parabolic PDE with a quadratic gradient term. For internal distributed controls, it is shown that the system is approximately and null controllable. The proof relies on the Cole-Hopf transformation. The same approach is used to deal with initial controls.
In this article, we are discussing a more vital concept of controllability, termed total controllability. We have considered a nonlocal semilinear functional evolution equations with non-instantaneous impulses and finite delay in Hilbert spaces. A set of sufficient conditions of total controllability is obtained for the evolution system under consideration, by imposing the theory of C_0-semigroup and Banach fixed point theorem. We also established the total controllability results for a functional integro-differential equation. Finally, an example is given to demonstrate the feasibility of der…
This paper deals with the problem of internal null-controllability of a heat equation posed on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions and perturbed by a semilinear nonlocal term. We prove the small-time local null-controllability of the equation. The proof relies on two main arguments. First, we establish the small-time local null-controllability of a $2 \times 2$ reaction-diffusion system, where the second equation is governed by the parabolic operator $τ\partial_t - σΔ$, $τ, σ> 0$. More precisely, this controllability result is obtained uniformly with respect to the parameters $…
In this paper we are concerned with the approximate controllability of a multidimensional semilinear reaction-diffusion equation governed by a multiplicative control, which is locally distributed in the reaction term. For a given initial state we provide sufficient conditions on the desirable state to be approximately reached within an arbitrarily small time interval. Moreover, in the case of a globally supported control, we prove the approximate controllability within any time-interval given in advance which does not depend on the initial and target states. Our approaches are based on linear …
Inspired in our work on the controllability for the semilinear with memory \cite{Carrasco-Guevara-Leiva:2017aa, Guevara-Leiva:2016aa, Guevara-Leiva:2017aa}, we present the general cases for the approximate controllability of impulsive semilinear evolution equations in a Hilbert space with memory and delay terms which arise from reaction-diffusion models. We prove that, for each initial and an arbitrary neighborhood of a final state, one can steer the system from the initial condition to this neighborhood of the final condition with an appropriated collection of admissible controls thanks to th…
This article is devoted to study the interior approximated controllability of the strongly damped semilinear wave equation with memory, impulses and delay terms. The problem is challenging since the state equation contains memory and impulsive terms yielding to potential unbounded control sequences steering the system to a neighborhood of the final state, thus fixed point theorems cannot be used directly. As alternative, the A.E Bashirov and et al. techniques are applied and together with the delay allow the control solution to be directed to fixed curve in a short time interval and achieve ou…
We study the existence and approximate controllability of a class of fractional nonlocal delay semilinear differential systems in a Hilbert space. The results are obtained by using semigroup theory, fractional calculus, and Schauder's fixed point theorem. Multi-delay controls and a fractional nonlocal condition are introduced. Furthermore, we present an appropriate set of sufficient conditions for the considered fractional nonlocal multi-delay control system to be approximately controllable. An example to illustrate the abstract results is given.
In this paper, we apply the hierarchical strategy to a semilinear weakly degenerate parabolic equation involving a gradient term. We use the Stackelberg-Nash strategy with one leader which tries to drive the solution to zero and two followers intended to solve a Nash equilibrium corresponding to a bi-objective optimal control problem. Since the system is semilinear, the functionals are not convex in general. To overcome this difficulty, we first prove the existence and uniqueness of the Nash quasi-equilibrium, which is a weaker formulation of the Nash equilibrium. Next, with additional conditi…
In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the control, when the time horizon is long enough. As we shall see, in fact, the minimal controllability time turns out to be strictly positive. More precisely, we prove a global steady state constrained controllability result for a semilinear parabolic equation with $C^1$ nonlinearity, without sign or globally Lipschitz assumptions on the nonlinear term. Then, …
We study the internal controllability of the semilinear wave equation $$v_{tt}(x,t)-Δv(x,t) + f(x,v(x,t))= \Un_ω u(x,t)$$ for some nonlinearities $f$ which can produce several non-trivial steady states. One of the usual hypotheses to get global controllability, is to assume that $f(x,v)v\geq 0$. In this case, a stabilisation term $u=γ(x)v_t$ makes any solution converging to zero. The global controllability then follows from a theorem of local controllability and the time reversibility of the equation. In this paper, the nonlinearity $f$ can be more general, so that the solutions of the damped …
It is well-known that the controllability of finite-dimensional nonlinear systems can be established by showing the controllability of the linearized system. However, this classical result does not generalize to infinite-dimensional nonlinear systems. In this paper, we restrict ourselves to semilinear infinite-dimensional systems, and show that the exact controllability of the linearized system implies exact controllability of the nonlinear system. The restrictions concerning the nonlinear operator are similar to those that can be found in the literature about the linearized stability analysis…
We study the global approximate controllability properties of a one dimensional semilinear reaction-diffusion equation governed via the coefficient of the reaction term. It is assumed that both the initial and target states admit no more than finitely many changes of sign. Our goal is to show that any target state $ u^*\in H_0^1 (0,1)$, with as many changes of sign in the same order as the given initial data $ u_0\in H^1_0(0,1)$, can be approximately reached in the $ L^2 (0,1)$-norm at some time $T>0$. Our method employs shifting the points of sign change by making use of a finite sequence of …
The main objective of this paper is to establish the null controllability for the fourth order semilinear parabolic equations with the nonlinearities involving the state and its gradient up to second order. First of all, based on optimal control theory of partial differential equations and global Carleman estimates obtained in \cite{gs} for fourth order parabolic equation with $L^2(Q)$-external force, we establish the global Carleman estimates for the $L^2(Q)$ weak solutions of the same system with a low regularity external term and some linear terms including the derivatives of the state up t…
The semilinear beam equation with impulses, memory and delay is considered. We obtain the approximate controllability. This is done by employing a technique that avoids fixed point theorems and pulling back the control solution to a fixed curve in a short time interval. Demonstrating, once again, that the controllability of a system is robust under the influence of impulses and delays.
We consider the semilinear heat equation posed on a smooth bounded domain $Ω$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The control input is a source term localized in some arbitrary nonempty open subset $ω$ of $Ω$. The goal of this paper is to prove the uniform large time global null-controllability for semilinearities $f(s) = \pm |s| \log^α(2+|s|)$ where $α\in [3/2,2)$ which is the case left open by Enrique Fernandez-Cara and Enrique Zuazua in 2000. It is worth mentioning that the free solution (without control) can blow-up. First, we establish the small-time global …
In this paper, we first prove a uniform upper bound on costs of null controls for semilinear heat equations with globally Lipschitz nonlinearity on a sequence of increasing domains, where the controls are acted on an equidistributed set that spreads out in the whole Euclidean space R^N . As an application, we then show the exactly null controllability for this semilinear heat equation in R^N . The main novelty here is that the upper bound on costs of null controls for such kind of equations in large but bounded domains can be made uniformly with respect to the sizes of domains under considerat…
The semilinear heat equation with non-instantaneous impulses \textbf{(NII)}, memory, and delay is considered and its approximate controllability is obtained. This is done by employing a technique that avoids fixed point theorems and pulls back the control solution to a fixed curve in a short time interval. We demonstrate, once again, that the controllability of the system is robust under the influence of non-instantaneous impulses, memory, and delays. Finally, we present some open problems and a possible general framework to study the controllability of non-instantaneous impulses semilinear sy…
The present work is devoted to the problem of boundary stabilization of the semilinear 1-D heat equation with nonlocal boundary conditions. The stabilizing controller is finite-dimensional, linear, given in an explicit form, involving only the eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator with nonlocal boundary conditions.
In this paper, we establish the equivalence of minimal time and minimal norm control problems for semilinear heat equations in which the controls are distributed internally in an open subset of the state domain. As an application, the Bang-Bang property for minimal norm controls are also presented.
In this paper, we derive a bang-bang property of a kind of time optimal control problem for some semilinear heat equation on bounded $C^2$ domains (of the Euclidean space), with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition and controls distributed on an open and non-empty subset of the domain where the equation evolves.
In this paper, we consider a non-autonomous nonlinear evolution equation in separable, reflexive Banach spaces. First, we consider a linear problem and establish the approximate controllability results by finding a feedback control with the help of an optimal control problem. We then establish the approximate controllability results for a semilinear differential equation in Banach spaces using the theory of linear evolution systems, properties of resolvent operator and Schauder's fixed point theorem. Finally, we provide an example of a non-autonomous, nonlinear diffusion equation in Banach spa…
We prove null controllability for linear and semilinear heat equations with dynamic boundary conditions of surface diffusion type. The results are based on a new Carleman estimate for this type of boundary conditions.
This paper is addressed to a study of the null controllability for the semilinear parabolic equation with a complex principal part. For this purpose, we establish a key weighted identity for partial differential operators $(\a+i\b)\pa_t+\sum\limits_{j,k=1}^n\pa_k(a^{jk}\pa_j)$ (with real functions $\a$ and $\b$), by which we develop a universal approach, based on global Carleman estimate, to deduce not only the desired explicit observability estimate for the linearized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, but also all the known controllability/observability results for the parabolic, hyperbolic, …
In this paper we present a null controllability result for a degenerate semilinear parabolic equation with first order terms. The main result is obtained after the proof of a new Carleman inequality for a degenerate linear parabolic equation with first order terms.
We prove the internal controllability of some systems of two coupled wave equations in one space dimension, with one control, under certain conditions on the coupling. To do this we apply the "fictitious control method" in two cases: general systems with a "non-degenerate" coupling, and a particular case where the coupling is "degenerate", namely a cubic coupling. In the latter case, our proof requires to find nontrivial trajectories of the control system that go from $0$ to $0$. We build these trajectories by adapting (in $1$ space dimension) a construction developed by Jean-Michel Coron, Ser…
This paper studies the approximate and null controllability for impulse controlled systems of heat equations coupled by a pair (A,B) of constant matrices. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for the approximate controllability, which is exactly Kalman's controllability rank condition of (A,B). We prove that when such a system is approximately controllable, the approximate controllability over an interval [0,T] can be realized by adding controls at arbitrary n different control instants 0<τ_1<τ_2<\cdots<τ_n<T, provided that τ_n-τ_1<d_A, where d_A=\min\{π/|Im λ| : λ\in σ(A)\}. We als…
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.
The exact distributed controllability of the semilinear heat equation $\partial_{t}y-Δy + g(y)=f \,1_ω$ posed over multi-dimensional and bounded domains, assuming that $g\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ satisfies the growth condition $\limsup_{r\to \infty} g(r)/(\vert r\vert \ln^{3/2}\vert r\vert)=0$ has been obtained by Fernández-Cara and Zuazua in 2000. The proof based on a non constructive fixed point arguments makes use of precise estimates of the observability constant for a linearized heat equation. In the one dimensional setting, assuming that $g^\prime$ does not grow faster than $β\ln^{3/2}\vert r…
In this paper, we present some controllability results for the heat equation in the framework of hierarchic control. We present a Stackelberg strategy combining the concept of controllability with robustness: the main control (the leader) is in charge of a null-controllability objective while a secondary control (the follower) solves a robust control problem, this is, we look for an optimal control in the presence of the worst disturbance. We improve previous results by considering that either the leader or follower control acts on a small part of the boundary. We also present a discussion abo…
We study global finite-dimensional observer-based stabilization of a semilinear 1D heat equation with globally Lipschitz semilinearity in the state variable. We consider Neumann actuation and point measurement. Using dynamic extension and modal decomposition we derive nonlinear ODEs for the modes of the state. We propose a controller that is based on a nonlinear finite-dimensional Luenberger observer. Our Lypunov $H^1$-stability analysis leads to LMIs, which are shown to be feasible for a large enough observer dimension and small enough Lipschitz constant. Next, we consider the case of a const…
In this paper we establish hierarchic control for the linear heat equation in $\re^N$ with potentials. Our strategy is inspired by the techniques developed by J.I. Díaz and J.-L. Lions \cite{DL}; however many new difficulties arise due to lack of compactness of Sobolev embeddings. We manage these adversities by employing similarity variables and weighted Sobolev spaces.
University of the Basque Country(巴斯克大学);Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg(埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学);Fundación Deusto(德乌斯托基金会);Universidad Autónoma de Madrid(马德里自治大学)
We consider a linear hybrid system composed by two rods of equal length connected by a point mass. We show that the system is null controllable with Dirichlet and Neumann controls. The results are based on a careful spectral spectral analysis together with the moment method.
The exact distributed controllability of the semilinear wave equation $\partial_{tt}y-Δy + g(y)=f \,1_ω$ posed over multi-dimensional and bounded domains, assuming that $g\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ satisfies the growth condition $\limsup_{r\to \infty} g(r)/(\vert r\vert \ln^{1/2}\vert r\vert)=0$ has been obtained by Fu, Yong and Zhang in 2007. The proof based on a non constructive Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem makes use of precise estimates of the observability constant for a linearized wave equation. Assuming that $g^\prime$ does not grow faster than $β\ln^{1/2}\vert r\vert$ at infinity for $β…
In this paper, we prove a Carleman estimate for fully-discrete approximations of parabolic operators in which the discrete parameters $h$ and $\triangle t$ are connected to the large Carleman parameter. We use this estimate to obtain relaxed observability inequalities which yield, by duality, controllability results for fully-discrete linear and semilinear parabolic equations.