This paper addresses the problem of deformation control of an Euler-Bernoulli beam with in-domain actuation. The proposed control scheme consists in first relating the system model described by an inhomogeneous partial differential equation to a target system under a standard boundary control form. Then, a combination of closed-loop feedback control and flatness-based motion planning is used for stabilizing the closed-loop system around reference trajectories. The validity of the proposed method is assessed through well-posedness and stability analysis of the considered systems. The performance of the developed control scheme is demonstrated through numerical simulations of a representative micro-beam.

This paper presents a Green's function-based design for deformation control of a microbeam described by an Euler-Bernoulli equation with in-domain pointwise actuation. The Green's function is first used in control design to construct the test function that enables the solvability of a map between the original nonhomogeneous partial differential equation and a target system in standard boundary control form. Then a regularized Green's function is employed in motion planning, leading to a computationally tractable implementation of the control scheme combined by a single feedback stabilizing loop and feedforward controls. The viability and the applicability of the proposed approach are demonstrated through numerical simulations of a representative microbeam.

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