Adaptive Control of a Linear Hyperbolic PDE with Uncertain Transport Speed and a Spatially Varying Coefficient

Abstract

Recently, the first result on backstepping-based adaptive control of a 1-D linear hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) with an uncertain transport speed was presented. The system also had an uncertain, constant in-domain coefficient, and the derived controller achieved convergence to zero in the $L_{\infty}$-sense in finite time. In this paper, we extend that result to systems with a spatially varying in-domain coefficient, achieving asymptotic convergence to zero in the $L_{\infty}$-sense. Additionally, for the case of having a constant in-domain coefficient, the new method is shown to have a slightly improved finite-time convergence time. The theory is illustrated in simulations.