SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.51, No.3, 2005-2035, 2013
LOCAL EXPONENTIAL H-2 STABILIZATION OF A 2 x 2 QUASILINEAR HYPERBOLIC SYSTEM USING BACKSTEPPING
In this work, we consider the problem of boundary stabilization for a quasilinear 2 x 2 system of first-order hyperbolic PDEs. We design a new full-state feedback control law, with actuation on only one end of the domain, which achieves H-2 exponential stability of the closed-loop system. Our proof uses a backstepping transformation to find new variables for which a strict Lyapunov function can be constructed. The kernels of the transformation are found to verify a Goursat-type 4 x 4 system of first-order hyperbolic PDEs, whose well-posedness is shown using the method of characteristics and successive approximations. Once the kernels are computed, the stabilizing feedback law can be explicitly constructed from them.
Keywords:nonlinear hyperbolic systems;boundary conditions;stability;Lyapunov function;backstepping;method of characteristics;integral equation;Goursat problem