Disturbance Observer-Based Boundary Control for an Anti-Stable Stochastic Heat Equation with Unknown Disturbance

Abstract: In this paper, a novel control strategy namely disturbance observer-based control is first applied to stabilization and disturbance rejection for an anti-stable stochastic heat equation with Neumann boundary actuation and unknown boundary external disturbance generated by an exogenous system. A disturbance observer-based boundary control is designed based on the backstepping approach and estimation/cancellation strategy, where the unknown disturbance is estimated in real time by a disturbance observer and rejected in the closed-loop, while the in-domain multiplicative noise whose intensity is within a known finite interval is attenuated. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is exponentially stable in the sense of both mean square and almost surely. A numerical example is demonstrated to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control approach.