Boundary displacement control at one end of a string in the presence of a nonlocal boundary condition of one of four types, and its optimization (Q1007050)

In the present paper, we exhaustively solve the problem of boundary control by the displacement \(u(0,t)=\mu(t)\) at the end \(x=0\) of the string in the presence of a model nonlocal boundary condition of one of four types relating the values of the displacement \(Au(x,t)\) or its derivative \(u_x(x,t)\) at the boundary point \(x=l\) of the string to their values at some interior point \(\mathring x\).