Finite dimensional compensator for flexible structures (Q4035002)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0754.00025.] The author considers a general semigroup system, without assuming the spectrum determined condition. The input to the system is unbounded (boundary control input) while the output is distributed. Suitable approximation type assumptions as well as detectability and stabilizability are assumed. The author shows that it is possible to construct finite-dimensional approximations to the observer which enjoy several convergence properties and, more important, such that the closed loop of the original system and the finite-dimensional approximations of the controller is stable uniformly in the parameter of the discretization. Moreover, the semigroup generated in this way strongly converges to the semigroup of the original system and the original controller. Applications to the case of a controller obtained from the solution of a Riccati equation are considered.