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This paper considers the problem of determining an optimal control action based on observed data. We formulate the problem assuming that the system can be modelled by a nonlinear state-space model, but where the model parameters, state and…
In this article we study the internal controllability of 1D linear hyperbolic balance laws when the number of controls is equal to the number of state variables. The controls are supported in space in an arbitrary open subset. Our main…
We consider an elliptic optimal control problem where the objective functional contains evaluations of the state at a finite number of points. In particular, we use a fidelity term that encourages the state to take certain values at these…
The three concepts of exact, null and approximate controllabilities are analyzed from the exterior of the Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation associated with the fractional Laplace operator subject to the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet type exterior…
We study the boundary control problems for the wave, heat, and Schr\"odinger equations on a finite graph. We suppose that the graph is a tree (i.e., it does not contain cycles), and on each edge an equation is defined. The control is acting…
We consider controllability for divergence-free systems that have a conserved quantity and satisfy a H\"ormander condition. It is shown that such systems are controllable, provided that the conserved quantity is a proper function. The proof…
(a). Using time analyticity result, we address a basic question for a nonhomogeneous backward heat equation (exact control problem) in the setting of smooth domains and compact manifolds, namely: when is essentially time independent control…
This paper is concerned with impulse approximate controllability for stochastic evolution equations with impulse controls. As direct applications, we formulate captivating minimal norm and time optimal control problems; The minimal norm…
In this paper we consider a constrained parabolic optimal control problem. The cost functional is quadratic and it combines the distance of the trajectory of the system from the desired evolution profile together with the cost of a control.…
We consider a control scheme where a quantum system S is put in contact with an auxiliary quantum system A and the control can affect A only, while S is the system of interest. The system S is then controlled indirectly through the…
We study an optimal control problem for the heat equation with a prescribed terminal state. To circumvent the difficulty of enforcing a hard terminal constraint, we analyze a penalized formulation and prove that the corresponding optimal…
In this paper, we study a fault-tolerant control for systems consisting of multiple homogeneous components such as parallel processing machines. This type of system is often more robust to uncertainty compared to those with a single…
Several dynamical systems in fields such as engineering, chemistry, biology, and physics show impulsive behavior by reason of unexpected changes at specific times. These behaviors are described by differential systems under impulse effects.…
Method-of-lines discretizations are demanding test problems for stiff integration methods. However, for PDE problems with known analytic solution the presence of space discretization errors or the need to use codes to compute reference…
We are concerned with the design of Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes such that asymptotic stability of the resulting closed loop is guaranteed even if the linearization at the desired set point fails to be stabilizable. Therefore, we…
We provide a framework for the numerical approximation of distributed optimal control problems, based on least-squares finite element methods. Our proposed method simultaneously solves the state and adjoint equations and is $\inf$--$\sup$…
The concept of a local infimum for an optimal control problem is introduced. This definition extends that of an optimal process. For a~local infimum we prove an existence theorem and derive necessary conditions that resemble some family of…
This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…
In this article, we prove a local controllability result for a general class of 1D partial differential equations on the interval $(0,1)$. The PDEs we consider take the form $\partial_t^N y=\zeta_M \partial_{x}^{M}y+f(x , y , \partial_{x}…
This paper presents an equivalence theorem for three different kinds of optimal control problems, which are optimal target control problems, optimal norm control problems and optimal time control problems. Controlled systems in this study…