Boundary control for a kind of coupled PDE-ODE system (Q462460)

Summary: A coupled system of an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) and a heat Partial Differential Equation (PDE) with spatially varying coefficients is discussed. By using the PDE backstepping method, the state-feedback stabilizing controller is explicitly constructed with the assumptions \(\lambda (x) \in P[x]_n\) and \(\lambda (x) \in C^{\infty}_{[0,l]}\), respectively. The closed-loop system is proved to be exponentially stable by this controller. A simulation example is presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.