Table of Contents:
  • Observability and Controllability for Finite-dimensional Systems
  • Operator Semigroups
  • Semigroups of Contractions
  • Control and Observation Operators
  • Testing Admissibility
  • Observability
  • Observation for the Wave Equation
  • Non-harmonic Fourier Series and Exact Observability
  • Observability for Parabolic Equations
  • Boundary Control Systems
  • Controllability
  • Appendix I: Some Background on Functional Analysis
  • Appendix II: Some Background on Sobolev Spaces
  • Appendix III: Some Background on Differential Calculus
  • Appendix IV: Unique Continuation for Elliptic Operators.