Boundary control of a linear distributed parameter bioprocess. (Q1420533)

The characteristic conditions for exponential stability of a linear distributed parameter bio-process are discussed. The substrate and bio-mass concentrations are controlled using a feedback signal at the input boundary and measurements at the output boundary. It is shown that the system is exponentially stabilizable by a proper selection of the feedback gain. It is proved that the used closed-loop infinitesimal Hilbert space operator generates a uniformly bounded semigroup which relates the initial and actual distributed states. It is also shown that the decay rate of the given open-loop distributed parameter system can be calculated by letting the feedback gain tend to zero.