Robust Control Design of Underactuated 2 × 2 PDE-ODE-PDE Systems.

In this letter, we design a robust stabilizing controller for a system composed of two sets of linear heterodirectional hyperbolic PDEs, with actuation at one boundary of one of the PDEs, and couplings at the middle boundary with ODEs in a PDE-ODE-PDE configuration. The system is underactuated since only one of the PDE systems is actuated. The design approach employs a backstepping transformation ...