Optimal actuator location of minimum norm controls for heat equation with general controlled domain

In this paper, we study optimal actuator location of the minimum norm controls for a multi-dimensional heat equation with control defined in the space L-2(Omega x (0, T)). The actuator domain is time-varying in the sense that it is only required to have a prescribed Lebesgue measure for any moment. We select an optimal actuator location so that the optimal control takes its minimal norm over all possible actuator domains. We build a framework of finding the Nash equilibrium so that we can develop a sufficient and necessary condition to characterize the optimal relaxed solutions for both actuator location and corresponding optimal control of the open -loop system. The existence and uniqueness of the optimal classical solutions are therefore concluded. As a result, we synthesize both optimal actuator location and corresponding optimal control into a time-varying feedbacks. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.