F. Koudohode and N. Bekiaris-Liberis, "Stabilization of an unstable reaction-diffusion PDE with input delay despite state and input quantization," 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, USA, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11108079
We solve the global asymptotic stability problem of an unstable reaction-diffusion Partial Differential Equation (PDE) subject to input delay and state quantization developing a switched predictor-feedback law. To deal with the input delay, we reformulate the problem as an actuated transport PDE coupled with the original reaction-diffusion PDE. Then, we design a quantized predictor-based feedback mechanism that employs a dynamic switching strategy to adjust the quantization range and error over time. The stability of the closed-loop system is proven properly combining backstepping with a small-gain approach and input-to-state stability techniques, for deriving estimates on solutions, despite the quantization effect and the system’s instability. We also extend this result to the input quantization case.