Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2005
A Lur'e feedback control system consisting of a linear, infinite-dimensional system of boundary control in factor form and a nonlinear static sector type controller is considered. A criterion of absolute strong asymptotic stability of the null equilibrium is obtained using a quadratic form Lyapunov functional. The construction of such a functional is reduced to solving a Lur'e system of equations. A sufficient strict circle criterion of solvability of the latter is found,which is based on results by Oostveen and Curtain [Automatica34 (1998) 953–967]. All theresults are illustrated in detail by an electrical transmission line example of thedistortionless loaded $\mathfrak{RLCG}$ -type. The paper uses extensively thephilosophy of reciprocal systems with bounded generating operators as recentlystudied and used by Curtain in (2003) [Syst. Control Lett.49 (2003) 81–89; SIAM J. Control Optim.42 (2003) 1671–1702].