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A parabolic approach to the control of opinion spreading
We analyze the problem of controlling to consensus a nonlinear system
modeling opinion spreading. We derive explicit exponential estimates on the
cost of approximately controlling these systems to consensus, as a function of
the number of agents N and the control time-horizon T. Our strategy makes use
of known results on the controllability of spatially discretized semilinear
parabolic equations. Both systems can be linked through time-rescalin
Controllability of the 1D Schrodinger equation by the flatness approach
We derive in a straightforward way the exact controllability of the 1-D
Schrodinger equation with a Dirichlet 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 input achieving the exact controllability in the energy space. As an
application, we derive an explicit pair of control inputs achieving the exact
steering to zero for a simply-supported beam
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