Asymptotic behavior of a 2D overhead crane with input delays in the boundary control

Abstract : The paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of a 2D overhead crane with input delays in the boundary control. A linear boundary control is proposed. The main feature of such a control lies in the fact that it solely depends on the velocity but under the presence of time-delays. We end-up with a closed-loop system where no displacement term is involved. It is shown that the problem is well-posed in the sense of semigroups theory. LaSalle's invariance principle is invoked in order to establish the asymptotic convergence for the solutions of the system to a stationary position which depends on the initial data. Using a resolvent method, it is proved that the convergence is indeed of polynomial type as long as the delay term satisfies a smallness condition. Lastly, non-convergence results are put forward in the case when such a condition on the delay term is not fulfilled.