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An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation containing a state-dependent regime switching, with a recursive cost functional. Due to the non-exponential discounting in the cost functional, the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Hongwei Mei , Jiongmin Yong

Presented is a method for efficient computation of the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equation for time-optimal control problems using the generalized Hopf formula. Typically, numerical methods to solve the HJ equation rely on a discrete grid of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Matthew R. Kirchner , Gary Hewer , Jerome Darbon , Stanley Osher

Stochastic optimal control problems governed by delay equations with delay in the control are usually more difficult to study than the the ones when the delay appears only in the state. This is particularly true when we look at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-22 F. Gozzi , F. Masiero

This paper deals with junction conditions for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations for finite horizon control problems on multi-domains. We consider two different cases where the final cost is continuous or lower semi-continuous. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Daria Ghilli , Zhiping Rao , Hasnaa Zidani

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

The Bellman equation and its continuous-time counterpart, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, serve as necessary conditions for optimality in reinforcement learning and optimal control. While the value function is known to be the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Haoxiang You , Lekan Molu , Ian Abraham

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

CASL-HJX is a computational framework designed for solving deterministic and stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations in two spatial dimensions. It provides a flexible and efficient approach to modeling front propagation problems, optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Faranak Rajabi , Jacob Fingerman , Andrew Wang , Jeff Moehlis , Frederic Gibou

Designing optimal controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems often relies on reinforcement learning and adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) to approximate solutions of the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equation. However, these methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Akash Vyas , Shreyas Kumar , Jayant Kumar Mohanta , Ravi Prakash

Optimal control and the associated second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation are studied for unbounded stochastic evolution systems in Hilbert spaces. A new notion of viscosity solution, featured by absence of B-continuity, is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shanjian Tang , Jianjun Zhou

We present a method for optimal coordination of multiple vehicle teams when multiple endpoint configurations are equally desirable, such as seen in the autonomous assembly of formation flight. The individual vehicles' positions in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Matthew R. Kirchner , Mark J. Debord , João P. Hespanha

Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successfully applied to a range of challenging sequential decision-making and control tasks. However, most of existing techniques are designed for discrete-time systems. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Jeongho Kim , Insoon Yang

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) provides a value function that encodes the set of states from which a system with bounded control inputs can reach or avoid a target despite any bounded disturbance, and the corresponding robust, optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Will Sharpless , Yat Tin Chow , Sylvia Herbert

This paper presents a physics-informed machine learning approach for synthesizing optimal feedback control policy for infinite-horizon optimal control problems by solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation(PDE).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Tanay Raghunandan Srinivasa , Suraj Kumar

Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations (HJ PDEs) play a central role in many applications such as economics, physics, and engineering. These equations describe the evolution of a value function which encodes valuable information…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Tingwei Meng , Siting Liu , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher

We design fast numerical methods for Hamilton-Jacobi equations in density space (HJD), which arises in optimal transport and mean field games. We overcome the curse-of-infinite-dimensionality nature of HJD by proposing a generalized Hopf…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Yat Tin Chow , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

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

Continuous-time reinforcement learning offers an appealing formalism for describing control problems in which the passage of time is not naturally divided into discrete increments. Here we consider the problem of predicting the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Harley Wiltzer , David Meger , Marc G. Bellemare

We study optimal stochastic control problems of general coupled systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations with jumps. By means of the It\^o-Ventzell formula the system is transformed to a controlled backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem , Tusheng Zhang

We exploit the separation of the filtering and control aspects of quantum feedback control to consider the optimal control as a classical stochastic problem on the space of quantum states. We derive the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman…

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