15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
COMPLETE STABILIZATION OF A TANK
Christophe Prieur* Jonathan de Halleux**
* Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire d’analyse numérique et
EDP, bâtiment 425, 91405 Orsay, France.
Christophe.Prieur@math.u-psud.fr
** CESAME, Universit Catholique de Louvain,
4, Av. Georges Lemaitre, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium, dehalleux@csam.ucl.ac.be

We consider a tank containing a fluid. The tank is subjected to a one-dimensional horizontal move and the motion of the fluid is described by the shallow water equations. By means of a Lyapunov approach, we deduce control laws to stabilize the fluid state and the tank speed. Altough global asymptotic stability is yet to be proved, we numerically simulate the system and observe stabilization for different control situations.
Keywords: Partial Differential Equations, Lyapunov Function, Boundary Conditions, Numerical Simulation
Session slot T-Tu-E08: Stabilization III/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems