Stability of a strongly stabilizing control for systems with a skew-adjoint operator in Hilbert space (Q5927709)

This paper considers the robust stabilization of the uncertain system NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{aligned}\dot x(t) &=(A+\Delta A)x(t)+ bu,\quad x\in H,\\ x(0) &= x_0,\end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(A\) is an unbounded operator on a Hilbert space \(H\), with (possibly unbounded) parameter uncertainty \(\Delta A\). If \(A\) is skew-adjoint and has a separated spectrum \(\lambda_i\) such that \(\sum 1/|\lambda_i|^2< \infty\), then it is shown that \(-b^*x\) is a robust stabilizing controller. The result is based on a bound on the difference between an eigenvalue of \(A\) and the nearest eigenvalue of \(A- bb^*\) in terms of \(b\).