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Motion Planning for a nonlinear Stefan Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2003

William B. Dunbar ,
Nicolas Petit ,
Pierre Rouchon  and
Philippe Martin
William B. Dunbar
Affiliation:
Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 107-8l, 1200 E California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Nicolas Petit
Affiliation:
Centre Automatique et Systèmes, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France; petit@cas.ensmp.fr.
Pierre Rouchon
Affiliation:
Centre Automatique et Systèmes, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France; petit@cas.ensmp.fr.
Philippe Martin
Affiliation:
Centre Automatique et Systèmes, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75272 Paris Cedex 06, France; petit@cas.ensmp.fr.
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Abstract

In this paper we consider a free boundary problem for a nonlinearparabolic partial differential equation. In particular, we areconcerned with the inverse problem, which means we know thebehavior of the free boundary a priori and would like a solution,e.g. a convergent series, in order to determine what thetrajectories of the system should be for steady-state tosteady-state boundary control. In this paper we combine twoissues: the free boundary (Stefan) problem with a quadraticnonlinearity. We prove convergence of a series solution and give adetailed parametric study on the series radius of convergence.Moreover, we prove that the parametrization can indeed can be usedfor motion planning purposes; computation of the open loop motionplanning is straightforward. Simulation results are given and weprove some important properties about the solution. Namely, a weakmaximum principle is derived for the dynamics, stating that themaximum is on the boundary. Also, we prove asymptotic positivenessof the solution, a physical requirement over the entire domain, asthe transient time from one steady-state to another gets large.

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Inverse Stefan problemflatnessmotion planning.

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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 9 , January 2003 , pp. 275 - 296
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2003

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