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Nonlocal Controllability for the Semilinear Fuzzy Integrodifferential Equations in
-Dimensional Fuzzy Vector Space
Advances in Difference Equations volume 2009, Article number: 734090 (2009)
Abstract
We study the existence and uniqueness of solutions and controllability for the semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equations in -dimensional fuzzy vector space
by using Banach fixed point theorem, that is, an extension of the result of J. H. Park et al. to
-dimensional fuzzy vector space.
1. Introduction
Many authors have studied several concepts of fuzzy systems. Diamond and Kloeden [1] proved the fuzzy optimal control for the following system:

where and
are nonempty compact interval-valued functions on
. Kwun and Park [2] proved the existence of fuzzy optimal control for the nonlinear fuzzy differential system with nonlocal initial condition in
by using Kuhn-Tucker theorems. Fuzzy integrodifferential equations are a field of interest, due to their applicability to the analysis of phenomena with memory where imprecision is inherent. Balasubramaniam and Muralisankar [3] proved the existence and uniqueness of fuzzy solutions for the semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equation with nonlocal initial condition. They considered the semilinear one-dimensional heat equation on a connected domain
for material with memory. In one-dimensional fuzzy vector space
, Park et al. [4] proved the existence and uniqueness of fuzzy solutions and presented the sufficient condition of nonlocal controllability for the following semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equation with nonlocal initial condition:

where ,
is a fuzzy coefficient,
is the set of all upper semicontinuous convex normal fuzzy numbers with bounded
-level intervals,
is a nonlinear continuous function,
is a nonlinear continuous function,
is an
continuous matrix such that
is continuous for
and
with
,
, with all nonnegative elements,
is control function.
In [5], Kwun et al. proved the existence and uniqueness of fuzzy solutions for the semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equations by using successive iteration. In [6], Kwun et al. investigated the continuously initial observability for the semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equations. Bede and Gal [7] studied almost periodic fuzzy-number-valued functions. Gal and N'Guérékata [8] studied almost automorphic fuzzy-number-valued functions.
In this paper, we study the the existence and uniqueness of solutions and controllability for the following semilinear fuzzy integrodifferential equations:

where is fuzzy coefficient,
is the set of all upper semicontinuously convex fuzzy numbers on
with
,
is a nonlinear regular fuzzy function,
is a nonlinear continuous function,
is
continuous matrix such that
is continuous for
and
with
,
,
is control function and
is initial value.
2. Preliminaries
A fuzzy set of is a function
. For each fuzzy set
, we denote by
for any
, its
-level set.
Let be fuzzy sets of
. It is well known that
for each
implies
.
Let denote the collection of all fuzzy sets of
that satisfies the following conditions:
(1) is normal, that is, there exists an
such that
;
(2) is fuzzy convex, that is,
for any
,
;
(3) is upper semicontinuous, that is,
for any
,
;
(4) is compact.
We call an
-dimension fuzzy number.
Wang et al. [9] defined -dimensional fuzzy vector space and investigated its properties.
For any ,
, we call the ordered one-dimension fuzzy number class
(i.e., the Cartesian product of one-dimension fuzzy number
) an
-dimension fuzzy vector, denote it as
, and call the collection of all
-dimension fuzzy vectors (i.e., the Cartesian product
)
-dimensional fuzzy vector space, and denote it as
.
Definition 2.1 (see [9]).
If , and
is a hyperrectangle, that is,
can be represented by
, that is,
for every
, where
with
when
,
, then we call
a fuzzy
-cell number. We denote the collection of all fuzzy
-cell numbers by
.
Theorem 2.2 (see [9]).
For any with
, there exists a unique
such that
(
and
).
Conversely, for any with
and
, there exists a unique
such that
.
Note (see [9]).
Theorem 2.2 indicates that fuzzy -cell numbers and
-dimension fuzzy vectors can represent each other, so
and
may be regarded as identity. If
is the unique
-dimension fuzzy vector determined by
, then we denote
.
Let ,
be fuzzy subset of
. Then
.
Definition 2.3 (see [9]).
The complete metric on
is defined by

for any , which satisfies
.
Definition 2.4.
Let , then

Definition 2.5 (see [9]).
The derivative of a fuzzy process
is defined by

provided that the equation defines a fuzzy .
Definition 2.6 (see [9]).
The fuzzy integral ,
is defined by

provided that the Lebesgue integrals on the right-hand side exist.
3. Existence and Uniqueness
In this section we consider the existence and uniqueness of the fuzzy solution for (1.3) ().
We define

Then

Instead of (1.3), we consider the following fuzzy integrodifferential equations in :

with fuzzy coefficient , initial value
, and
is a control function. Given nonlinear regular fuzzy function
satisfies a global Lipschitz condition, that is, there exists a finite
such that

for all . The nonlinear function
is a continuous function and satisfies the Lipschitz condition

for all ,
is a finite positive constant.
Definition 3.1.
The fuzzy process with
-level set
is a fuzzy solution of (3.3) without nonhomogeneous term if and only if

For the sequel, we need the following assumptions.
(H1) is a fuzzy number satisfying, for
,
, the equation

where

and is continuous with
,
, for all
.
(H2) .
In view of Definition 3.1 and (H1), (3.3) can be expressed as

Theorem 3.2.
Let . If hypotheses (H1)-(H2) are hold, then for every
, (3.9) (
have a unique fuzzy solution
.
Proof.
For each and
, define
by

Thus, is continuous, so
is a mapping from
into itself. By Definitions 2.3 and 2.4, some properties of
, and inequalities (3.4) and (3.5), we have following inequalities. For
,

Therefore

Hence

By hypothesis (H2), is a contraction mapping.
Using the Banach fixed point theorem, (3.9) have a unique fixed point .
4. Controllability
In this section, we show the nonlocal controllability for the control system (1.3).
Definition 4.1.
Equation (1.3) is nonlocal controllable. Then there exists such that the fuzzy solution
for (3.9) as
where
is target set.
Define the fuzzy mapping by

where is closed support of
. Then there exists

such that

Then exists such that

We assume that are bijective mappings.
We can introduce -level set of
of (3.4)-(3.5)

Then substituting this expression into (3.9) yields -level of
.
For each ,

Therefore

We now set

where the fuzzy mapping satisfies above statements.
Notice that , which means that the control
steers (3.9) from the origin to
in time
provided that we can obtain a fixed point of the operator
.
(H3) Assume that the linear system of (3.9) is controllable.
Theorem 4.2.
Suppose that hypotheses (H1)–(H3) are satisfied. Then (3.9) are nonlocal controllable.
Proof.
We can easily check that is continuous function from
to itself. By Definitions 2.3 and 2.4, some properties of
, and inequalities (3.4) and (3.5), we have the following inequalities. For any
,

Therefore

Hence

By hypothesis (H2), is a contraction mapping. Using the Banach fixed point theorem, (4.8) has a unique fixed point
.
5. Example
Consider the two semilinear one-dimensional heat equations on a connected domain for material with memory on
boundary condition
,
and with initial conditions
, where
,
. Let
,
, be the internal energy and let
,
, be the external heat.
Let

then the balance equations become

The -level sets of fuzzy numbers are the following:
,
for all
. Then
-level set of
is

Further, we have

where and
satisfy the inequality (3.4) and (3.5), respectively. Choose
such that
. Then all conditions stated in Theorem 3.2 are satisfied, so problem (5.2) has a unique fuzzy solution.
Let target set be . The
-level set of fuzzy numbers is
.
From the definition of fuzzy solution,

where .
Thus the -level of
is

Then -level of
is

Similarly

Hence

Then all the conditions stated in Theorem 4.2 are satisfied, so system (5.2) is nonlocal controllable on .
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This study was supported by research funds from Dong-A University.
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Kwun, Y., Kim, J., Park, M. et al. Nonlocal Controllability for the Semilinear Fuzzy Integrodifferential Equations in -Dimensional Fuzzy Vector Space.
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Keywords
- Fuzzy Number
- Lipschitz Condition
- Connected Domain
- Fuzzy Function
- Fuzzy Process