SWITCHING AND PERIODIC CONTROL OF THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE SYSTEM

The paper aims at providing a switching solution for a parametrized Belgian chocolate stabilization problem posed by Blondel. We show that for any given value of the parameter describing the given transfer function, there exist simple switching and periodic control laws that stabilize the plant. The simplicity in designing these control laws sharply contrasts with the difficulty of designing a non-switching non-periodic control law for this problem.