Output regulation for linear distributed parameter systems

This work extends the geometric theory of output regulation to linear distributed parameter systems with bounded input and output operator, in the case when the reference signal and disturbances are generated by a finite dimensional exogenous system. In particular it is shown that the full state feedback and error feedback regulator problems are solvable, under the standard assumptions of stabilizability and detectability, if and only if a pair of regulator equations is solvable. For linear distributed parameter systems this represents an extension of the geometric theory of output regulation developed in Francis (1997) and Isidori and Byrnes (1990). We also provide simple criteria for solvability of the regulator equations based on the eigenvalues of the exosystem and the system transfer function. Examples are given of periodic tracking, set point control, and disturbance attenuation for parabolic systems and periodic tracking for a damped hyperbolic system.