Stabilization of port-Hamiltonian systems with discontinuous energy densities

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We establish an exponential stabilization result for linear port-Hamiltonian systems of first order with quite general, not necessarily continuous, energy densities. In fact, we have only to require the energy density of the system to be of bounded variation. In particular, and in contrast to the previously known stabilization results, our result applies to vibrating strings or beams with jumps in their mass density and their modulus of elasticity.</p>

Robust Exponential Stabilization for a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Time-varying Delays

This paper is concerned with the problem of robust exponential stabilization for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems with time-varying delays. By using appropriately chosen Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, together with the Finsler’s lemma, sufficient conditions for exponential stability of nonlinear uncertain systems with time-varying delays are proposed in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Then, novel sufficient conditions are developed to ensure the nonlinear uncertain system with time-varying delay is robust exponentially stabilizable in terms of linear matrix inequality with state feedback control. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the efficiency of proposed methods.