Boundary control of cascaded ODE-Heat equations under actuator   saturation
  In this paper, we consider boundary stabilization for a cascade of ODE-heat system with state delay under actuator saturation. To stabilize the system, we design a state feedback controller via the backstepping method and find a bound on the domain of attraction. The latter bound is based on Lyapunov method, whereas the exponential stability of the delayed cascaded systems is proved by using Halanay's inequality. Numerical examples illustrate the efficiency of the method. 
Wen Kang, Emilia Fridman
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