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In this paper infinite horizon optimal control problems for nonlinear high-dimensional dynamical systems are studied. Nonlinear feedback laws can be computed via the value function characterized as the unique viscosity solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Stefan Volkwein

We propose a neural network approach that yields approximate solutions for high-dimensional optimal control problems and demonstrate its effectiveness using examples from multi-agent path finding. Our approach yields controls in a feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Derek Onken , Levon Nurbekyan , Xingjian Li , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Lars Ruthotto

A tensor decomposition approach for the solution of high-dimensional, fully nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamics is presented. The method combines a tensor train approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Karl Kunisch

This paper introduces a novel methodology that leverages the Hamilton-Jacobi solution to enhance non-linear model predictive control (MPC) in scenarios affected by navigational uncertainty. Using Hamilton-Jacobi-Theoretic approach, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Amit Jain , Roshan T. Eapen , Puneet Singla

In this paper, we present an application of the optimal control theory to orbital transfer of Low Earth Orbit satellites. The optimal control problem is treated with Dynamic Programming techniques which require solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 C. Ciancarelli , R. Ferretti , A. Intelisano , G. Villani

We treat infinite horizon optimal control problems by solving the associated stationary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation numerically to compute the value function and an optimal feedback law. The dynamical systems under consideration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Mathias Oster , Leon Sallandt , Reinhold Schneider

The objective of designing a control system is to steer a dynamical system with a control signal, guiding it to exhibit the desired behavior. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation offers a framework for optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jostein Barry-Straume , Adwait D. Verulkar , Arash Sarshar , Andrey A. Popov , Adrian Sandu

A procedure for the numerical approximation of high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations associated to optimal feedback control problems for semilinear parabolic equations is proposed. Its main ingredients are a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Dante Kalise , Karl Kunisch

The purpose of this paper is to describe the numerical solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) for an optimal control problem for quantum spin systems. This HJB equation is a first order nonlinear partial differential equation defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Srinivas Sridharan , Matthew R. James

The numerical realization of the dynamic programming principle for continuous-time optimal control leads to nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations which require the minimization of a nonlinear mapping over the set of admissible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Dante Kalise , Axel Kröner , Karl Kunisch

This paper presents an inverse optimality method to solve the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for a class of nonlinear problems for which the cost is quadratic and the dynamics are affine in the input. The method is inverse optimal because…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Luis Rodrigues , Didier Henrion , Mehdi Abedinpour Fallah

In this paper we present a new algorithm for the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations related to optimal control problems. The key idea is to divide the domain of computation into subdomains which are shaped by the optimal dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Simone Cacace , Emiliano Cristiani , Maurizio Falcone , Athena Picarelli

The classical Dynamic Programming (DP) approach to optimal control problems is based on the characterization of the value function as the unique viscosity solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. The DP scheme for the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Alessandro Alla , Maurizio Falcone , Luca Saluzzi

The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Matanya B. Horowitz , Anil Damle , Joel W. Burdick

This paper considers optimal control of dynamical systems which are represented by nonlinear stochastic differential equations. It is well-known that the optimal control policy for this problem can be obtained as a function of a value…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Oktay Arslan , Evangelos Theodorou , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Dynamic programming (DP) is a fundamental tool used across many engineering fields. The main goal of DP is to solve Bellman's optimality equations for a given Markov decision process (MDP). Standard methods like policy iteration exploit the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sergio Rozada , Samuel Rey , Gonzalo Mateos , Antonio G. Marques

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm has been widely adopted for solving the distributed optimization problem (DOP). In this paper, a new distributed parallel ADMM algorithm is proposed, which allows the agents to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Ziye Liu , Fanghong Guo , Wei Wang , Xiaoqun Wu

Trajectory optimization considers the problem of deciding how to control a dynamical system to move along a trajectory which minimizes some cost function. Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is an optimal control method which utilizes a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-10 David D. Fan , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this paper, we propose two novel decentralized optimization frameworks for multi-agent nonlinear optimal control problems in robotics. The aim of this work is to suggest architectures that inherit the computational efficiency and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Yuichiro Aoyama , Hongchang Zhu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

For solving pseudo-convex global optimization problems, we present a novel fully adaptive steepest descent method (or ASDM) without any hard-to-estimate parameters. For the step-size regulation in an $\varepsilon$-normalized direction, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Z. R. Gabidullina