754 research outputs found
Alternating and variable controls for the wave equation
The present article discusses the exact observability of the wave equation
when the observation subset of the boundary is variable in time. In the
one-dimensional case, we prove an equivalent condition for the exact
observability, which takes into account only the location in time of the
observation. To this end we use Fourier series. Then we investigate the two
specific cases of single exchange of the control position, and of exchange at a
constant rate. In the multi-dimensional case, we analyse sufficient conditions
for the exact observability relying on the multiplier method. In the last
section, the multi-dimensional results are applied to specific settings and
some connections between the one and multi-dimensional case are discussed;
furthermore some open problems are presented.Comment: The original publication is available at www.esaim-cocv.org. The
copyright of this article belongs to ESAIM-COC
Controllability and observabiliy of an artificial advection-diffusion problem
In this paper we study the controllability of an artificial
advection-diffusion system through the boundary. Suitable Carleman estimates
give us the observability on the adjoint system in the one dimensional case. We
also study some basic properties of our problem such as backward uniqueness and
we get an intuitive result on the control cost for vanishing viscosity.Comment: 20 pages, accepted for publication in MCSS. DOI:
10.1007/s00498-012-0076-
Modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on R
We provide a sufficient condition for a measure on the real line to satisfy a
modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality, thus extending the criterion of Bobkov
and G\"{o}tze. Under mild assumptions the condition is also necessary.
Concentration inequalities are derived. This completes the picture given in
recent contributions by Gentil, Guillin and Miclo
Numerical controllability of the wave equation through primal methods and Carleman estimates
This paper deals with the numerical computation of boundary null controls for
the 1D wave equation with a potential. The goal is to compute an approximation
of controls that drive the solution from a prescribed initial state to zero at
a large enough controllability time. We do not use in this work duality
arguments but explore instead a direct approach in the framework of global
Carleman estimates. More precisely, we consider the control that minimizes over
the class of admissible null controls a functional involving weighted integrals
of the state and of the control. The optimality conditions show that both the
optimal control and the associated state are expressed in terms of a new
variable, the solution of a fourth-order elliptic problem defined in the
space-time domain. We first prove that, for some specific weights determined by
the global Carleman inequalities for the wave equation, this problem is
well-posed. Then, in the framework of the finite element method, we introduce a
family of finite-dimensional approximate control problems and we prove a strong
convergence result. Numerical experiments confirm the analysis. We complete our
study with several comments
Relation lifting, with an application to the many-valued cover modality
We introduce basic notions and results about relation liftings on categories
enriched in a commutative quantale. We derive two necessary and sufficient
conditions for a 2-functor T to admit a functorial relation lifting: one is the
existence of a distributive law of T over the "powerset monad" on categories,
one is the preservation by T of "exactness" of certain squares. Both
characterisations are generalisations of the "classical" results known for set
functors: the first characterisation generalises the existence of a
distributive law over the genuine powerset monad, the second generalises
preservation of weak pullbacks. The results presented in this paper enable us
to compute predicate liftings of endofunctors of, for example, generalised
(ultra)metric spaces. We illustrate this by studying the coalgebraic cover
modality in this setting.Comment: 48 pages, accepted for publication in LMC
Tracking the Tracker from its Passive Sonar ML-PDA Estimates
Target motion analysis with wideband passive sonar has received much
attention. Maximum likelihood probabilistic data-association (ML-PDA)
represents an asymptotically efficient estimator for deterministic target
motion, and is especially well-suited for low-observable targets; the results
presented here apply to situations with higher signal to noise ratio as well,
including of course the situation of a deterministic target observed via clean
measurements without false alarms or missed detections. Here we study the
inverse problem, namely, how to identify the observing platform (following a
two-leg motion model) from the results of the target estimation process, i.e.
the estimated target state and the Fisher information matrix, quantities we
assume an eavesdropper might intercept. We tackle the problem and we present
observability properties, with supporting simulation results.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic System
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