This contribution deals with the feed-forward control design for distributed parameter
systems governed by quasi-linear hyperbolic equations. This is achieved in two steps:
Firstly, the basic ideas underlying existing flatness-based approaches to nonlinear
distributed parameter systems are restated in a general form. As a result the control problem
is led back to a Cauchy problem wrt space. Second, the solution of this Cauchy problem is
discussed for the quasi-linear hyperbolic case using the method of characteristics. This …

… The paper presents a motion planning scheme and control design technique based on
flatness for hyperbolic systems described by a partial differential equation. The structure of
the … Moreover a numerical integration scheme is developed for this class of systems. The
proposed concept is then applied to the heavy rope system which has been treated in the
past using a coarser approximation than in the present paper. …