Delay‐adaptive control of first‐order hyperbolic partial integro‐differential equations

Abstract We develop a delay‐adaptive controller for a class of first‐order hyperbolic partial integro‐differential equations with an unknown input delay. By employing a transport PDE to represent delayed actuator states, the system is transformed into a transport partial differential equation with unknown propagation speed cascaded with a PIDE. A parameter update law is designed using a Lyapunov argument and the infinite‐dimensional backstepping technique to establish global stability results. Subsequently, the effectiveness of the proposed approach was validated through numerical simulations.