Exponential stabilization of an ODE–linear KdV cascaded system with boundary input delay

Abstract

Abstract This paper considers the well posedness and the exponential stabilization problems of a cascaded ordinary differential equation (ODE)–partial differential equation (PDE) system. The considered system is governed by a linear ODE and the one-dimensional linear Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation posed on a bounded interval. For the whole system, a control input delay acts on the left boundary of the KdV domain by Dirichlet condition. Whereas, the KdV acts back on the ODE by Dirichlet interconnection on the right boundary. Firstly, we reformulate the system in question as an undelayed ODE-coupled KdV-transport system. Secondly, we use the so-called infinite dimensional backstepping method to derive an explicit feedback control law that transforms system under consideration to a well-posed and exponentially stable target system. Finally, by invertibility of such design, we use semigroup theory and Lyapunov analysis to prove the well posedness and the exponential stabilization in a suitable functional space of the original plant, respectively.