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A necessary maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of stochastic systems driven by multidimensional Teugel's martingales. The multidimensional Teugel's martingales are constructed by orthogonalizing the multidimensional L\'{e}vy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Jianzhong Lin

In this paper, we describe a constrained Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for the optimal control of nonholonomic mechanical systems. In particular, we aim to minimize a cost functional, given initial and final conditions where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Rohit Gupta , David Martin de Diego

In optimal control problems, there exist different kinds of extremals, that is, curves candidates to be solution: abnormal, normal and strictly abnormal. The key point for this classification is how those extremals depend on the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-06-18 M. Barbero Linan , M. C. Munoz-Lecanda

An optimal control problem associated with the dynamics of the orientation of a bipolar molecule in the plane can be understood by means of tools in differential geometry. For first time in the literature $k$-symplectic formalism is used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-26 María Barbero-Liñán , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda

In this paper, the Pontryagin-type maximum principle for optimal control of quantum stochastic systems in fermion fields is obtained. These systems have gained significant prominence in numerous quantum applications ranging from physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Penghui Wang , Shan Wang

Pontryagin type maximum principle and Bellman's dynamic programming principle serve as two of the most important tools in solving optimal control problems. There is a huge literature on the study of relationship between them. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Liangying Chen , Qi Lü

In this paper, we prove a Pontryagin Maximum Principle for constrained optimal control problems in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. The dynamics, is described by a transport equation with non-local velocities and is subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Benoît Bonnet

In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equation with delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of controls $u…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

In this paper, we present a framework for solving continuous optimal control problems when the true system dynamics are approximated through an imperfect model. We derive a control strategy by applying Pontryagin's Minimum Principle to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We study a class of optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations of monotone type under certain coercivity and linear growth conditions. We give first order necessary conditions of optimality. A stochastic Pontryagin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ioana Ciotir , Nicolas Forcadel , Piero Visconti , Hasnaa Zidani

The Pontryagin's Maximum Principle allows, in most cases, the design of optimal controls of affine nonlinear control systems by considering the sign of a smooth function. There are cases, although, where this function vanishes on a whole…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Eduardo Oda , Pedro Aladar Tonelli

This paper investigates the relationship between Pontryagin's maximum principle and dynamic programming principle in the context of stochastic optimal control systems governed by stochastic evolution equations with random coefficients in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Dingqian Gao , Qi Lü

The main purpose of this paper is to give a solution to a long-standing unsolved problem in stochastic control theory, i.e., to establish the Pontryagin-type maximum principle for optimal controls of general infinite dimensional nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

The optimal control of problems that are constrained by partial differential equations with uncertainties and with uncertain controls is addressed. The Lagrangian that defines the problem is postulated in terms of stochastic functions, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Eveline Rosseel , Garth N. Wells

We prove a version of the maximum principle, in the sense of Pontryagin, for the optimal control of a stochastic partial differential equation driven by a finite dimensional Wiener process. The equation is formulated in a semi-abstract form…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Marco Fuhrman , Ying Hu , Gianmario Tessitore

Exploiting our previous results on higher order controlled Lagrangians in [Nonlinear Anal. {\bf 207} (2021), 112263], we derive here an analogue of the classical first order Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP) for cost minimising problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Franco Cardin , Cristina Giannotti , Andrea Spiro

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as ${\Gamma}$-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Mattia Bongini , Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Rossi , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we consider a class of stochastic control problems for stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. The control domain need not to be convex but the control process is not allowed to enter in diffusion term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Ishak Alia , Mohamed Sofiane Alia

In this paper, we discuss a new general formulation of fractional optimal control problems whose performance index is in the fractional integral form and the dynamics are given by a set of fractional differential equations in the Caputo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-24 H. M. Ali , F. Lobo Pereira , S. M. A. Gama

This paper addresses the time-optimal control problem for a class of control systems which includes controlled mechanical systems with possible dissipation terms. The Lie algebras associated with such mechanical systems enjoy certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Chyba , N. E. Leonard , E. D. Sontag