Stabilization of a Non-homogeneous Rotating Body-Beam System with the Torque and Nonlinear Distributed Controls

This paper considers the stabilization of non-homogeneous rotating body-beam system with the torque and nonlinear distributed controls. To stabilize the system, the authors propose the torque and nonlinear distributed controls applied on the disk and flexible beam respectively. As long as the angular velocity of the disk does not exceed the square root of the first eigenvalue of the related self-adjoint positive definite operator, the authors show that the torque and nonlinear distributed control laws suppress the system vibrations, in the sense that the beam vibrations are forced to decay exponentially to zero and the body rotates with a desired angular velocity.