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Colloquium January 17

Date: Friday January 17

Time: 16:00 to 17:00

Place: 216 McBryde

Speaker: Jeff Borggaard of the Math. Dept.

Title: Chandrasekhar PDEs for Feedback Control Laws

Abstract

A common approach to designing controllers for distributed parameter systems is to discretize the problem and rely on finite dimensional control strategies. These finite dimensional methods require the solution of an nxn Riccati equation which becomes prohibitive with fine discretizations. For problems with a small number of inputs and outputs, Chandrasekhar equations provide an efficient tool for computing feedback laws. We'll investigate this as well as the abstract form, Chandrasekhar PDEs, for computing functional gains. These gains provide a starting point for addressing sensor/actuator placement problems.


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