The volume here presented contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, held in Graz (Austria) from July 15–21, 2001. It was the one eighth in a series of conferences that began in 1982. The book includes are a broad variety of topics related to partial differential equations, ranging from abstract functional analytic framework to aspects ...

This paper formulates and solves the problem of model identification and parameter uncertainty in plutonium storage systems. A systematic procedure helps to choose among alternative mathematical models with different properties and degrees of freedom. Rigorous metrics for measuring the statistical alignment between five different physical models and given experimental data are discussed. On the...

This work extends the geometric theory of output regulation to linear distributed parameter systems with bounded input and output operator, in the case when the reference signal and disturbances are generated by a finite dimensional exogenous system. In particular, it is shown that the full state feedback and error feedback regulator problems are solvable, under the standard assumptions of stab...

In this paper we consider robust output regulation of distributed parameter systems and the internal model principle. The main purpose is to generalize the internal model principle by Francis and Wonham for infinite-dimensional systems and clarify the relationships between different generalizations of the internal model. We also construct a signal generator capable of generating infinite-dimens...

The adaptive output feedback control problem of chemical distributed parameter systems is investigated while the process parameters are unknown. Such systems can be usually modeled by semilinear partial differential equations (PDEs). A combination of Galerkin’s method and proper orthogonal decomposition is applied to generate a reduced order model which captures the dominant dynamic behavior of...