On an approach to designing control of the distributed-parameter processes

Consideration was given to a class of the problems of optimal control of rod (plate) heating by controlling the furnace temperature. Control relies on the process information feedbacked continuously or discretely only from the individual points on the rod where the temperature sensors are installed. For the continuous and discrete observation, the mathematical model of the controlled process was reduced to the pointwise loaded parabolic equation. The paper established formulas for the functional gradient, proposed schemes of their numerical solution, and presented the results of the numerical experiments.