This monograph presents new model-based design methods for trajectory planning, feedback stabilization, state estimation, and tracking control of distributed-parameter systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Flatness and backstepping techniques and their generalization to PDEs with higher-dimensional spatial domain lie at the core of this treatise. This includes the development of systematic late lumping design procedures and the deduction of semi-numerical approaches using suitable approximation methods. Theoretical developments are combined with both simulation examples and experimental results to bridge the gap between mathematical theory and control engineering practice in the rapidly evolving PDE control area.

The text is divided into five parts featuring:

a literature survey of paradigms and control design methods for PDE systems
the first principle mathematical modeling of applications arising in heat and mass transfer, interconnected multi-agent systems, and piezo-actuated smart elastic structures
the generalization of flatness-based trajectory planning and feedforward control to parabolic and biharmonic PDE systems defined on general higher-dimensional domains
an extension of the backstepping approach to the feedback control and observer design for parabolic PDEs with parallelepiped domain and spatially and time varying parameters
the development of design techniques to realize exponentially stabilizing tracking control
the evaluation in simulations and experiments

Control of Higher-Dimensional PDEs - Flatness and Backstepping Designs is an advanced research monograph for graduate students in applied mathematics, control theory, and related fields. The book may serve as a reference to recent developments for researchers and control engineers interested in the analysis and control of systems governed by PDEs.

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Model equations for multiagent networks.- Model equations for flexible structures with piezoelectric actuation.- Mathematical problem formulation.- Spectral approach for timeinvariant systems with general spatial domain.- Formal integration approach for time varying systems.- Backstepping for linear diffusionconvectionreaction systems with varying parameters on 1dimensional domains.- Backstepping for linear diffusionconvectionreaction systems with varying parameters on parallelepiped domains.