Optimal Mass Transport over the Euler Equation
Optimization and Control
2023-04-05 v1 Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Systems and Control
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
math.MP
Abstract
We consider the finite horizon optimal steering of the joint state probability distribution subject to the angular velocity dynamics governed by the Euler equation. The problem and its solution amounts to controlling the spin of a rigid body via feedback, and is of practical importance, for example, in angular stabilization of a spacecraft with stochastic initial and terminal states. We clarify how this problem is an instance of the optimal mass transport (OMT) problem with bilinear prior drift. We deduce both static and dynamic versions of the Eulerian OMT, and provide analytical and numerical results for the synthesis of the optimal controller.
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@article{arxiv.2304.00595,
title = {Optimal Mass Transport over the Euler Equation},
author = {Charlie Yan and Iman Nodozi and Abhishek Halder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.00595},
year = {2023}
}