Feedback stabilization for a bilinear control system under weak observability inequalities
Ka\"is Ammari, Mohamed Ouzahra

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This paper develops a feedback stabilization method for bilinear control systems with weak observability, providing explicit decay rates and applications to Schrödinger and wave equations.
Contribution
It introduces a novel stabilization approach under weak observability conditions and derives explicit decay rates for regular initial data.
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Explicit weak decay rates for bilinear systems
Application to Schrödinger and wave equations
Stability analysis under weak observability
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the feedback stabilization of bilinear systems under weak observation properties. In this case, the uniform stability is not guaranteed. Thus we provide an explicit weak decay rate for all regular initial data. Applications to Schr\"odinger and wave equations are provided.
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Feedback stabilization for a bilinear control system under weak observability inequalities
K. Ammari
UR Analysis and Control of PDE’s, UR 13E64, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences of Monastir, University of Monastir, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
and
M. Ouzahra
Department of mathematics & informatics, ENS. Univesity of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah. Fes, Morocco
Abstract.
In this paper, we discuss the feedback stabilization of bilinear systems under weak observation properties. In this case, the uniform stability is not guaranteed. Thus we provide an explicit weak decay rate for all regular initial data. Applications to Schrödinger and wave equations are provided.
Key words and phrases:
Distributed bilinear systems, feedback stabilization, decay estimate
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
93D15
Contents
1. Introduction
Most of control systems which are used to describe processes in physics, engineering, economics.. are generally nonlinear and relatively complex, which makes the identification of mathematical models extremely difficult. Consequently, the first investigations of different concepts in control theory were confined mainly to simple models, namely linear difference equations and linear ordinary differential equations (see [7, 31, 32]). Then there has been several work on generalizing the well known systems theory concepts to systems described by partial differential equations, where the adequate state space is an infinite dimensional functional space (see [11, 10, 14, 15, 21, 23, 32]). In recent years, bilinear systems have been widely used in the modeling of various dynamical systems, since many real physical processes may be appropriately modeled as bilinear systems when linear models are inadequate. Also, bilinear systems provide a better approximation to a nonlinear system than linear ones [16, 17, 19, 20].
In this paper, we are concerned with the question of feedback stabilization of the following homogeneous bilinear system:
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where the state space is an Hilbert with inner product and corresponding norm , the dynamic is an unbounded operator with domain and generates a semigroup of contractions on , is a linear bounded operator from into and is a scalar function and represents the control.
In order to construct a stabilizing control for the system (1), a natural approach is to formally compute the time rate of change of the energy , obtaining thus
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Thus, in order to make the energy nonincreasing, one may consider feedback controls such that the following ”dissipating energy inequality” holds
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As a class of feedback controls that satisfy the last inequality, one can consider the following family of controls :
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The case has been considered in many works [6, 12, 13, 25]. In [6], a weak stabilization result has been established using the control provided that the following assumption is verified:
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Under the assumption
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a strong stabilization result has been obtained using the control , and the following estimate (see [12, 25]) was given:
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In addition, others polynomial estimates was provided in [27] using the control with The case has been considered in [26], where exponential stabilization results have been established using under the observation assumption (3).
Note that the inequality (3) is necessary for uniform stabilization of conservative systems, so we can not expect such a degree of stability under a weaker observability assumption. Accordingly, we will look for weak stabilization when dealing with weak observation assumptions. Such a question was investigated in the case of unbounded linear feedback control (see [3, 4]) and bounded nonlinear feedback (see [2] and references therein).
In this paper, we study the weak stabilization of the bilinear system (1) under weaker observation assumptions than (3) using the controls In the next section we first present our stabilization results under observation inequalities that extend the classical one (3), and we provide the asymptotic estimate of the resulting state. Then we give a stabilization result under a null-controllability like assumption. In the third section we present applications to Schrödinger and wave equations.
2. Stabilization results and decay estimates
For a fixed we consider a couple of Banach spaces (see [24]) such that:
for all
the following interpolation holds: with;
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Let be a continuous and increasing function on .
2.1. Preliminary
Let us recall the following technical lemmas which gives useful estimates for the problem of stabilization.
Lemma 2.1**.**
([3], p. 26 and [4, 5]). Let be a sequence of positive real numbers satisfying
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where and are constants. Then there exists a positive constant such that:
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Lemma 2.2**.**
[27]**. Let generate a semigroup of contractions and let be linear and bounded. Then for all , the system (1) controlled with possesses a unique global mild solution, which satisfies the following decay estimate:
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2.2. The case of quadratic control
Let (1) be as given in the introduction. With the control , the system (1) becomes
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where .
The next result discusses the asymptotic behaviour of the solution of (6).
Theorem 2.1**.**
Suppose that:
- (i)
* generates a semigroup of contractions ,* 2. (ii)
* is linear and bounded.*
- (1)
If there exist such that
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then for all the feedback law
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guarantees the following decay estimate for the respective solution to (1),
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Suppose that the function is invertible on . If there exist such that
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then the feedback law (8) guarantees the following decay estimate for the respective solution to (1):
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Remark 2.1**.**
In (9), if we take then So, the estimate (10) generalizes the stability result obtained in [12, 25] as an implication of exact observability inequality (3).
Proof.
Proof of the first assertion: Let We can assume that
According to Lemma 2.2, the system (6) possesses a unique global mild solution, which is continuous with respect to the initial state, and satisfies the following variation of parameters formula:
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and satisfies the decay estimate
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Moreover since is dissipative, an approximation argument (see [7]) shows that
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It follows that
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Let us consider the sequence , .
Applying the inequality (13) for and and using (12), we derive
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Moreover, we can see from nonlinear semigroup properties that for all , we have
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from which it comes (recall that )
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with C(\|y_{0}\|)=:C_{1}\big{(}1+\|B\|^{2}\|y_{0}\|^{2}\big{)}, and where is a positive constant which is independent of
Thus
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where
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Then, since decreases in time, this implies
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which, by applying Lemma 2.1, gives
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Then using again that decreases, we deduce that
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Proof of the second assertion.
Let let be the constant given in (15) and consider the sequence
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Let us observe that under the assumptions on , the two sequences and are decreasing.
Using (9), we derive from (14)
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Moreover, it comes from (15) and the increasing of that
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Having in mind that we deduce that
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for some constant depending on . Thus, using the decreasing of and it comes
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and
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Applying Lemma 2.1, we deduce that:
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2.3. The case of normalized control
Let (1) be as given in the introduction and consider the control
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Thus the system (1) takes the form
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where if and
In the following result we provide a uniform estimate for the solution of (16).
Theorem 2.2**.**
Suppose that:
- (i)
* generates a semigroup of contractions ,* 2. (ii)
* is linear and bounded.*
- (1)
If the estimate (7) is satisfied, then for all the feedback law
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leads to the following decay estimate for the respective solution to (1)
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for some constant which is independent of . 2. (2)
Suppose that is invertible on and that the function is increasing on If the estimate (9) is satisfied, then the feedback law (17) leads to the following decay estimate for the respective solution to (1):
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for some constant which is independent of .
Proof.
By dissipativeness, we can assume without loss of generality that does not vanish, so that the control takes the form
Proof of the first assertion.
Applying Lemma 2.2 for , we deduce that system (16) possesses a unique global mild solution which is continuous with respect to initial states, and given by the following variation of parameters formula
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Moreover, we can show that (see [7])
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from which it comes immediately
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Moreover, we can again see from Lemma 2.2 that the solution of (16) satisfies the decay estimate
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Now, let us consider the sequence , .
Applying the inequality (20) for and and using (7) and (21), we derive
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which by (4) gives
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We have
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It follows that
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where is a positive constant which is independent of
Thus
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where is independent of
In the sequel, will denote a generic constant which is independent of
Since decreases in time, this implies
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Applying Lemma 2.1, we deduce that
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Then using again that decreases, we deduce that
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Proof of the second assertion.
We consider the sequence
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where is the constant given in (22).
Here, the two sequences and decreasing.
We deduce from the inequalities (21) and (20) that
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which by, (9) and the increasing of , gives
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Then, using the decreasing of and it comes
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and
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Applying Lemma 2.1, we deduce that
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2.4. Further result
In this part, we will establish a stability result under a null-controllability like assumption. More precisely, we consider the following estimate:
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for some .
Note that inequality (23) can be seen as an estimate is also a weak observability inequality; since only may be recovered, not .
Theorem 2.3**.**
Suppose that:
- (i)
* generates a semigroup of contractions ,* 2. (ii)
* is linear and bounded,* 3. (iii)
the estimate (23) holds.
Then for all the respective solution to controls and tends to [math] as .
Proof.
It suffices to prove the case of control since the two cases can be treated similarly.
Let . Then using (21) and (23), we obtain
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for some constant .
Moreover, the estimate (20) implies the following integral convergence:
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This, together with (24) implies that
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Then taking into account the inequalities (4) and (22), we deduce that
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Now, let and let be such that
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Implementing this in the following variation of constants formula
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it comes
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Hence Gronwall yields
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which completes the proof.
Remark 2.2**.**
Note that if (23) holds with the norm of , then one gets the convergence in for all
3. Some applications
Here we give some applications of Theorems 2.1 2.2.
3.1. Polynomial stabilization of bilinear coupled wave equations
We consider the two following initial and boundary coupled problems:
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and
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where , is a bounded open set of of class and where is the characteristic function of the set
Here, we have:
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which is a skew-adjoint operator satisfying the assumptions of Theorems 2.1 2.2, and B=\left(\begin{array}[]{llcc}0&0&0&0\\ 0&a&0&0\\ 0&0&0&0\\ 0&0&0&0\end{array}\right)\in\mathcal{L}(H).
Moreover, the corresponding linear equation becomes in this case:
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According to [1, 30] we show that the observability inequality is given by
Proposition 3.1**.**
There exist and such that for all , the following observability inequality holds:
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for all initial data
We remark here that we have (7) for and
Thus according to Theorems 2.1 2.2, we have the following stabilization result for the bilinear wave equation.
Theorem 3.1**.**
We suppose that satisfies a Lions Geometric Control Condition (LGCC), as in [30]. Then, we have:
- (1)
The energy of (26) satisfies the estimate:
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and for all initial data . 2. (2)
The energy of (25) satisfies the estimate:
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3.2. Weak stabilization of bilinear wave equation
We consider the following initial and boundary problem:
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and
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where and is a bounded open set of of class .
In this case, we have:
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and is a skew-adjoint operator satisfying of Theorems 2.1 and 2.2, and we have
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The corresponding linear equation is:
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According to [18, 29] we show that the observability inequality is given by
Proposition 3.2**.**
There exists and such that the following observability inequality holds:
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for all non-identically zero initial data
We remark here that we have (9) for
Thus according to Theorems 2.1 and 2.2 we have the following stabilization result for the bilinear wave equation.
Theorem 3.2**.**
We suppose that . We have:
- (1)
The energy of (31) satisfies the estimate:
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and for all initial data . 2. (2)
For all initial data the energy of (32) satisfies the estimate:
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3.3. Weak stabilization of bilinear Schrödinger equation
We consider the following initial and boundary problem:
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and
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where and is a bounded open set of of class .
In this case, we have:
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and is a skew-adjoint operator satisfying assumptions of Theorems 2.1 and 2.2, and we have
Moreover the linear equation becomes in this case:
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From [18, 29], we can show that the following observability inequality:
Proposition 3.3**.**
There exists and such that the following observability inequality holds:
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for all non-identically zero initial data
Here, (9) holds for We also notice that the constant in (3.3) can be taken large enough, so that the function is increasing on .
By applying Theorems 2.1 and 2.2, we obtain the following stabilization result for the bilinear Schrödinger equation.
Theorem 3.3**.**
We suppose that . We have:
- (1)
The energy of (37) satisfies the estimate:
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and for all initial data . 2. (2)
The energy of (38) satisfies the estimate:
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