Output feedback compensation to state and measurement delays for a first-order hyperbolic PIDE with recycle

This paper develops a novel observer-based output-feedback control law for a class of interconnected first-order hyperbolic partial integral differential equations (PIDEs) with in-domain, non-local coupling terms and measurement delay compensation. A transport PDE is introduced to account for in-domain recycle delay which results in an extended spatial domain with the PIDE and transport PDE being cascaded. Since standard backstepping approach cannot be applied, an affine Volterra integral transform is introduced which allows for the construction of a boundary controller for the PIDE and delay compensation. An observer backstepping transformation containing four kernels is realized, reconstructing the states throughout the delayed measurement. By the use of the backstepping method, a set of coupled kernel equations where one of the kernels has two boundary conditions is established. The existence and invertibility for the control and observer transformations are proved and the finite-time stability for the output system is established while results are illustrated by numerical simulations.