L1 adaptive control for general partial differential equation (PDE) systems

This paper addresses the L-1 adaptive control problem for general Partial Differential Equation (PDE) systems. Since direct computation and analysis on PDE systems are difficult and time-consuming, it is preferred to transform the PDE systems into Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) systems. In this paper, a polynomial interpolation approximation method is utilized to formulate the infinite dimensional PDE as a high-order ODE first. To further reduce its dimension, an eigenvalue-based technique is employed to derive a system of low-order ODEs, which is incorporated with unmodeled dynamics described as bounded-input, bounded-output (BIBO) stable. To establish the equivalence with original PDE, the reduced-order ODE system is augmented with nonlinear time-varying uncertainties. On the basis of the reduced-order ODE system, a dynamic state predictor consisting of a linear system plus adaptive estimated parameters is developed. An adaptive law will update uncertainty estimates such that the estimation error between predicted state and real state is driven to zero at each time-step. And a control law is designed for uncertainty handling and good tracking delivery. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modeling and control framework.