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Zhong-Jie Han

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arXiv2026

Operator Learning for PDE Backstepping Control of Parabolic Equations on Time-Varying Domains

This paper develops a learning-based boundary control framework for stabilizing a parabolic equation defined on time-varying spatial domain. Although the partial differential equation (PDE) backstepping method provides a systematic theoretical framework for such moving-boundary systems, its real-time implementation is hindered by the need to repeatedly solve time-varying kernel PDEs on evolving domains. To overcome this limitation, we first formulate the time-varying backstepping design as an operator that maps the moving-boundary trajectory to the corresponding backstepping kernel. By mapping the time-varying domain of the backstepping kernel equation onto a fixed reference domain, we establish the continuous dependence of the kernel on the moving-boundary trajectory, which provides the theoretical basis for approximating the backstepping design operator by a neural operator. Based on the approximate kernel operator, we construct the corresponding boundary feedback controller to stabilize the system. It is shown that the closed-loop system admits an exponential decay estimate on any prescribed finite time interval. For numerical implementation, DeepONet is employed to learn the time-varying kernel operator from offline-generated numerical kernel solutions and is subsequently deployed online to generate the required time-varying kernels without repeatedly solving the kernel PDE. Numerical benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed neural-operator-based implementation bypasses repeated online solution of the time-varying kernel PDE, achieves a significant acceleration of close to three orders of magnitude compared with conventional numerical kernel solvers, and thus enables real-time stabilization of the system on time-varying spatial domain.

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arXiv2026

Observer design and boundary output feedback stabilization for semilinear parabolic system over general multidimensional domain

This paper investigates the output feedback stabilization of parabolic equation with Lipschitz nonlinearity over general multidimensional domain using spectral geometry theories. First, a novel nonlinear observer is designed, and the error system is shown to achieve any prescribed decay rate by leveraging the Berezin-Li-Yau inequality from spectral geometry, which also provides effective guidance for sensor placement. Subsequently, a finite-dimensional state feedback controller is proposed, which ensures the quantitative rapid stabilization of the linear part. By integrating this control law with the observer, an efficient boundary output feedback control strategy is developed. The feasibility of the proposed control design is rigorously verified for arbitrary Lipschitz constants, thereby resolving a persistent theoretical challenge. Finally, a numerical case study confirms the effectiveness of the approach.

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arXiv2025

Output regulation for a reaction-diffusion system with input delay and unknown frequency

This study solves the output regulation problem for a reaction-diffusion system confronting concurrent input delay and fully unidentified disturbances (encompassing both unknown frequencies and amplitudes) across all channels. The principal innovation emerges from a novel adaptive control architecture that synergizes the modal decomposition technique with a dual-observer mechanism, enabling real-time concurrent estimation of unmeasurable system states and disturbances through a state observer and an adaptive disturbance estimator. Unlike existing approaches limited to either delay compensation or partial disturbance rejection, our methodology overcomes the technical barrier of coordinating these two requirements through a rigorously constructed tracking-error-based controller, achieving exponential convergence of system output to reference signals. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed output feedback control strategy.

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arXiv2025

Output regulation for an unstable wave equation with output delay and one measurement only

This paper addresses the output regulation problem for a one-dimensional unstable wave equation subject to output delay and all-channel disturbances with unknown frequencies and amplitudes. First, this problem is transformed into a stabilization problem for an unstable wave equation with output delay and disturbances by employing regulator equations. Subsequently, a backstepping-based feedforward regulator is proposed to exponentially stabilize this system. To track the states of the unstable wave equation, the time interval is partitioned into two segments. The observers and predictors are designed at these distinct intervals, respectively. Therein, the observers comprise two components: a state observer proposed via dynamic compensators and an adaptive observer designed by the adaptive internal model method. Finally, a novel error-based feedback controller is derived using a single measurement, ensuring exponential convergence of the tracking error to zero. This work establishes the pioneering solution to the output regulation problem for distributed parameter systems (DPS) with output delay. Numerical simulations are provided to illustrate the results.

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arXiv2024

Stability and Optimal Decay Rates for Abstract Systems with Thermal Damping of Cattaneo's Type

This paper studies the stability of an abstract thermoelastic system with Cattaneo's law, which describes finite heat propagation speed in a medium. We introduce a region of parameters containing coupling, thermal dissipation, and possible inertial characteristics. The region is partitioned into distinct subregions based on the spectral properties of the generator of the corresponding semigroup. By a careful estimation of the resolvent operator on the imaginary axis, we obtain distinct polynomial decay rates for systems with parameters located in different subregions. Furthermore, the optimality of these decay rates is proved. Finally, we apply our results to several coupled systems of partial differential equations.

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arXiv2024

Stability of the Abstract Thermoelastic System with Singularity

In this paper, we analyze an abstract thermoelastic system, where the heat conduction follows the Cattaneo law. Zero becomes a spectrum point of the system operator when the coupling and thermal damping parameters of system satisfy specific conditions. We obtain the decay rates of solutions to the system with or without the inertial term. Furthermore, the decay rate of the system without inertial terms is shown to be optimal.

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arXiv2021

Sharp Stability of a String with Local Degenerate Kelvin-Voigt Damping

This paper is on the asymptotic behavior of the elastic string equation with localized degenerate Kelvin--Voigt damping $$ u_{tt}(x,t)-[u_{x}(x,t)+b(x)u_{x,t}(x,t)]_{x}=0,\; x\in(-1,1),\; t>0,$$ where $b(x)=0$ on $x\in (-1,0]$, and $b(x)=x^α>0$ on $x\in (0,1)$ for $α\in(0,1)$. It is known that the optimal decay rate of solution is $t^{-2}$ in the limit case $α=0$, and exponential decay rate for $α\ge 1$. When $α\in (0,1)$, the damping coefficient $b(x)$ is continuous, but its derivative has a singularity at the interface $x=0$. In this case, the best known decay rate is $t^{-\frac{3-α}{2(1-α)}}$. Although this rate is consistent with the exponential one at $α=1$, it failed to match the optimal one at $α=0$. In this paper, we obtain a sharper polynomial decay rate $t^{-\frac{2-α}{1-α}}$. More significantly, it is consistent with the optimal polynomial decay rate at $α=0$ and the exponential decay rate at $α= 1$.This is a big step toward the goal of obtaining eventually the optimal decay rate.

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arXiv2021

Slow decay and turnpike for infinite-horizon hyperbolic LQ problems

This paper is devoted to analysing the explicit slow decay rate and turnpike in the infinite-horizon linear quadratic optimal control problems for hyperbolic systems. Assume that some weak observability or controllability are satisfied, by which, the lower and upper bounds of the corresponding algebraic Riccati operator are estimated, respectively. Then based on these two bounds, the explicit slow decay rate of the closed-loop system with Riccati-based optimal feedback control is obtained. The averaged turnpike property for this problem is also further discussed. We then apply these results to the LQ optimal control problems constraint to networks of one-dimensional wave equations and also some multi-dimensional ones with local controls which lack of GCC(Geometric Control Condition).

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