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Thavamani Govindaraj

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arXiv2026

Output Regulation for Impedance Passive Systems with Input Saturation

We consider output tracking and disturbance rejection for abstract infinite-dimensional systems with input saturation. We solve the control problem using a control law which consists of a stabilising error feedback term and a feedforward term based on the reference and disturbance signals. We use our results to design control laws for output tracking and disturbance rejection for a two-dimensional heat equation and a one-dimensional wave equation with boundary control and observation.

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arXiv2026

Analysis and funnel control for nonlinear drill strings

We study the output tracking problem for a vertically driven drill string system described by a nonlinear boundary-coupled PDE-ODE model. Solvability analysis of the drill string model is achieved by first casting the model in an abstract boundary value problem involving set-valued operators on an appropriate Hilbert space. The governing equation here consists of evolution and the damping part. Existence of solutions is established within the framework of maximal monotone operators where one first proves that the evolution operator is a linear skew-adjoint operator and the distributed damping term is a Nemytskii relation which is then proven to be maximal monotone. Maximal monotonicity of the combined operator is then a consequence of Rockafellar's theorem. Furthermore, we propose a novel funnel control design that ensures the angular velocity of the drill bit follows a dynamically adjusted reference trajectory, while the tracking error remains confined within a pre-specified performance funnel. The reference adjustment mechanism adapts in response to large wave traveling times that may cause performance degradation. The corresponding feasibility result is illustrated by some simulations.

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arXiv2025

Funnel control for passive infinite-dimensional systems

We consider funnel control for linear infinite-dimensional systems that are impedance passive, meaning that they satisfy an energy balance in which the stored energy equals the squared norm of the state and the supplied power is the inner product of input and output. For the analysis we employ the system node approach, which offers a unified framework for infinite-dimensional systems with boundary and distributed control and observation. The resulting closed-loop dynamics are governed by a nonlinear evolution equation; we establish its solvability and hence the applicability of funnel control to this class. The applicability is illustrated by an Euler-Bernoulli beam, which is studied in two distinct scenarios: once with boundary control and once with distributed control.

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arXiv2023

Robust Controllers for a Flexible Satellite Model

We consider a PDE-ODE model of a flexible satellite that is composed of two identical flexible solar panels and a center rigid body. We prove that the satellite model is exponentially stable in the sense that the energy of the solutions decays to zero exponentially. In addition, we construct two internal model based controllers, a passive controller and an observer based controller, such that the linear and angular velocities of the center rigid body converge to the given sinusoidal signals asymptotically. A numerical simulation is presented to compare the performances of the two controllers.

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