Inverse Optimal Control of Evolution Systems and Its Application to Extensible and Shearable Slender Beams

An optimal (practical) stabilization problem is formulated in an inverse approach and solved for nonlinear evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. The optimal control design ensures global well-posedness and global practical K-infinity-exponential stability of the closed-loop system, minimizes a cost functional, which appropriately penalizes both state and control in the sense that it is positive definite (and radially unbounded) in the state and control, without having to solve a Hamilton-Jacobi-Belman equation (HJBE). The Lyapunov functional used in the control design explicitly solves a family of HJBEs. The results are applied to design inverse optimal boundary stabilization control laws for extensible and shearable slender beams governed by fully nonlinear partial differential equations.