Funnel control for a moving water tank

We study tracking control for a moving water tank system, which is modelled using the Saint-Venant equations. The output is given by the position of the tank and the control input is the force acting on it. For a given reference signal, the objective is to achieve that the tracking error evolves within a prespecified performance funnel. Exploiting recent results in funnel control we show that it suffices to show that the operator associated with the internal dynamics of the system is causal, locally Lipschitz continuous and maps bounded functions to bounded functions. To show these properties we consider the linearized Saint-Venant equations in an abstract framework and show that it corresponds to a regular well-posed linear system, where the inverse Laplace transform of the transfer function defines a measure with bounded total variation.Comment: 11 page

Admissibility of retarded diagonal systems with one-dimensional input space

We investigate infinite-time admissibility of a control operator $B$ in a Hilbert space state-delayed dynamical system setting of the form $\dot{z}(t)=Az(t)+A_1 z(t-\tau)+Bu(t)$, where $A$ generates a diagonal $C_0$-semigroup, $A_1\in\mathcal{L}(X)$ is also diagonal and $u\in L^2(0,\infty;\mathbb{C})$. Our approach is based on the Laplace embedding between $L^2$ and the Hardy space $H^2(\mathbb{C}_+)$. The results are expressed in terms of the eigenvalues of $A$ and $A_1$ and the sequence representing the control operator.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figure

Structured Perturbations of Semigroup Generators: Theory and Applications

Wir verwenden einen Störungsansatz, um lineare Operatoren und deren Spektral- und Generatoreigenschaften zu untersuchen. Dazu betrachten wir strukturierte Störungen, welche auch im Kontext linearer Systeme mit geschlossenem Feedback betrachtet wurden