TRACKING CONTROL FOR A DIFFUSION–CONVECTION–REACTION SYSTEM: COMBINING FLATNESS AND BACKSTEPPING

The combination of flatness-based feedforward control and backstepping state feedback control is considered for the solution of a tracking control problem for a boundary controlled diffusion-convection-reaction system with cubic non-linearity. Besides the theoretical analysis, the tracking performance of the thus controlled distributed-parameter system is evaluated in simulation studies, which confirm the applicability of the approach.