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Main Authors: Zamorano, Sebastián, Zuazua, Enrique
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18641
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author Zamorano, Sebastián
Zuazua, Enrique
author_facet Zamorano, Sebastián
Zuazua, Enrique
contents We develop a functional-analytic characterization of output tracking controllability for finite-dimensional linear systems. By formulating tracking as the surjectivity of the control-to-output map on suitable trajectory spaces, we show that exact tracking is equivalent to a nonstandard observability inequality for the adjoint dynamics. This characterization enables a Hilbert Uniqueness Method (HUM) type variational construction of minimum-norm tracking controls and makes explicit the intrinsic regularity requirements on reference trajectories induced by the system dynamics and the output operator. The same framework also yields a natural notion of approximate tracking when exact tracking fails. We provide explicit formulas in the scalar case and report numerical experiments for ODEs and semi-discretized PDEs, demonstrating the method for both smooth and non-smooth targets.
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spellingShingle Tracking controllability for finite-dimensional linear systems
Zamorano, Sebastián
Zuazua, Enrique
Optimization and Control
Classical Analysis and ODEs
We develop a functional-analytic characterization of output tracking controllability for finite-dimensional linear systems. By formulating tracking as the surjectivity of the control-to-output map on suitable trajectory spaces, we show that exact tracking is equivalent to a nonstandard observability inequality for the adjoint dynamics. This characterization enables a Hilbert Uniqueness Method (HUM) type variational construction of minimum-norm tracking controls and makes explicit the intrinsic regularity requirements on reference trajectories induced by the system dynamics and the output operator. The same framework also yields a natural notion of approximate tracking when exact tracking fails. We provide explicit formulas in the scalar case and report numerical experiments for ODEs and semi-discretized PDEs, demonstrating the method for both smooth and non-smooth targets.
title Tracking controllability for finite-dimensional linear systems
topic Optimization and Control
Classical Analysis and ODEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18641