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This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem for a nonhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equation having regime switching with a quadratic functional in the large time horizon. This is a continuation of the paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

Turnpikes have recently gained significant research interest in optimal control, since they allow for pivotal insights into the structure of solutions to optimal control problems. So far, mainly steady state solutions which serve as optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Timm Faulwasser , Kathrin Flaßkamp , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Karl Worthmann

In this article, we establish exponential turnpike theorems for a class of nonlinear deterministic meanfield optimal control problems. We carry out our analysis simultaneously in the so-called Lagrangian and Eulerian frameworks. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Giovanni Colombo , Denis Shishmintsev , Emmanuel Trélat

Motivated by singular limits for long-time optimal control problems, we investigate a class of parameter-dependent parabolic equations. First, we prove a turnpike result, uniform with respect to the parameters within a suitable regularity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Martin Hernandez , Enrique Zuazua

Optimal control problems with a very large time horizon can be tackled with the Receding Horizon Control (RHC) method, which consists in solving a sequence of optimal control problems with small prediction horizon. The main result of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Tobias Breiten , Laurent Pfeiffer

The concept of turnpike connects the solution of long but finite time horizon optimal control problems with steady state optimal controls. A key ingredient of the analysis of the turnpike is the linear quadratic regulator problem and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jan Heiland , Enrique Zuazua

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to linear-quadratic mean field stochastic optimal control problems. By formulating an ergodic control framework, we characterize the convergence between the finite time horizon control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiamin Jian

We consider a vibrating string that is fixed at one end with Neumann control action at the other end. We investigate the optimal control problem of steering this system from given initial data to rest, in time T , by minimizing an objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Martin Gugat , Emmanuel Trélat , Enrique Zuazua

In this article we derive a strong version of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for general nonlinear optimal control problems on time scales in finite dimension. The final time can be fixed or not, and in the case of general boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

We consider the control problem with \textit{exit time}. Unlike the Bolza and Mayer problems, in this problem the terminal time of the trajectories is not fixed, but it is the first time at which they reach a given closed subset -…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Luong V. Nguyen

This paper presents first results for near optimality in expectation of the closed-loop solutions for stochastic economic MPC. The approach relies on a recently developed turnpike property for stochastic optimal control problems at an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser , Michael H. Baumann , Lars Grüne

We establish a polynomial turnpike estimate for an optimal control problem consisting of a system of infinitely many controlled oscillators, considered as an abstract differential equation in a Hilbert space, with a quadratic cost. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Alexander Zuyev , Emmanuel Trélat

We investigate the interior turnpike phenomenon for discrete-time multi-agent optimal control problems. While for continuous systems the turnpike property has been established, we focus here on first-order discretizations of such systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Martin Gugat , Michael Herty , Jiehong Liu , Chiara Segala

In this paper, we introduce turnpike arguments in the context of optimal state estimation. In particular, we show that the optimal solution of the state estimation problem involving all available past data serves as turnpike for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Julian D. Schiller , Lars Grüne , Matthias A. Müller

In this manuscript, we study the turnpike property in stochastic discrete-time optimal control problems for interacting agents. Extending previous deterministic results, we show that the turnpike effect persists in the presence of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Fabio Cassini , Chiara Segala

This work is concerned with the exponential turnpike property for optimal control problems of particle systems and their mean-field limit. Under the assumption of the strict dissipativity of the cost function, exponential estimates for both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Michael Herty , Yizhou Zhou

We investigate variants of Goddard's problems for nonvertical trajectories. The control is the thrust force, and the objective is to maximize a certain final cost, typically, the final mass. In this report, performing an analysis based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-04-20 Frédéric Bonnans , Pierre Martinon , Emmanuel Trélat

Recent results in the literature have provided connections between the so-called turnpike property, near optimality of closed-loop solutions, and strict dissipativity. Motivated by applications in economics, optimal control problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Lars Grüne , Lisa Krügel

In addition to the theoretical value of challenging optimal control problmes, recent progress in autonomous vehicles mandates further research in optimal motion planning for wheeled vehicles. Since current numerical optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Hamidreza Chitsaz

We consider irreversible and coupled reversible-irreversible nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and the respective sets of thermodynamic equilibria. In particular, we are concerned with optimal state transitions and output stabilization on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke