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This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yanzhao Cao , Hongjiang Qian , George Yin

We investigate optimal control of dynamical systems which are affine, i.e., linear in control, but nonlinear in state. The control task is to enforce the system state to follow a prescribed desired trajectory as closely as possible, a task…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Jakob Löber

In this paper, motivated by the study of optimal control problems for infinite dimensional systems with endpoint state constraints, we introduce the notion of finite codimensional (exact/approximate) controllability. Some equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Xu Liu , Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

We consider linear model reduction in both the control and state variables for unconstrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to time-varying parabolic PDEs. The first-order optimality condition for a state-space reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Michael Kartmann , Stefan Volkwein

We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-15 J. Balzer , S. Soatto

Optimal Control (OC) is the process of determining control and state trajectories for a dynamic system, over a period of time, in order to optimize a given performance index. With the increasing of variables and complexity, OC problems can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Helena Sofia Rodrigues , M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Delfim F. M. Torres

This work deals with the existence of optimal solution and the maximum principle for optimal control problem governed by Navier-Stokes equations with state constraint in 3-D. Strong results in 2-D also are given.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-19 Hanbing Liu

This paper addresses novel applications to practical modeling of the newly developed theory of necessary optimality conditions in controlled sweeping/Moreau processes with free time and pointwise control and state constraints. Problems of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

The paper is devoted to a free-time optimal control problem for sweeping processes. We develop a constructive finite-difference approximation procedure that allows us to establish necessary optimality conditions for discrete optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Tan H. Cao , Nathalie T. Khalil , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen , Fernando Lobo Pereira

In this article we analyze the optimal control strategy for rotating a monitored qubit from an initial pure state to an orthogonal state in minimum time. This strategy is described for two different cost functions of interest which do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-27 Srinivas Sridharan , Masahiro Yanagisawa , Joshua Combes

Motivated by the control of invasive biological populations, we consider a class of optimization problems for moving sets $t\mapsto \Omega(t)\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. Given an initial set $\Omega_0$, the goal is to minimize the area of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Alberto Bressan , Maria Teresa Chiri , Najmeh Salehi

Optimization under structural constraints is typically analyzed through projection or penalty methods, obscuring the geometric mechanism by which constraints shape admissible dynamics. We propose an operator-theoretic formulation in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Changkai Li

This paper is devoted to the study, for the first time in the literature, of optimal control problems for sweeping processes governed by integro-differential inclusions of the Volterra type with different classes of control functions acting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Abderrahim Bouach , Tahar Haddad , Boris S. Mordukhovich

In this paper, we are concerned with a stochastic optimal control problem of mean-field type under partial observation, where the state equation is governed by the controlled nonlinear mean-field stochastic differential equation, moreover…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Maonin Tang , Qingxin Meng

Many robotics tasks, such as path planning or trajectory optimization, are formulated as optimal control problems (OCPs). The key to obtaining high performance lies in the design of the OCP's objective function. In practice, the objective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Trevor Barron , Xiaojing Zhang

This paper is concerned with the problem of enhancing convection-cooling via active control of the incompressible velocity field, described by a stationary diffusion-convection model. This essentially leads to a bilinear optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Cuiyu He , Weiwei Hu , Lin Mu

The paper is devoted to deriving necessary optimality conditions in a general optimal control problem for dynamical systems governed by controlled sweeping processes with hard-constrained control actions entering both polyhedral moving sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Tan H. Cao , Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

The paper presents new sufficient conditions for the property of strong bi-metric regularity of the optimality map associated with an optimal control problem which is affine with respect to the control variable ({\em affine problem}). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Marc Quincampoix , Vladimir Veliov

The robotic shape control of deformable linear objects has garnered increasing interest within the robotics community. Despite recent progress, the majority of shape control approaches can be classified into two main groups: open-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Azad Artinian , Faiz Ben Amar , Veronique Perdereau

In this article, we are concerned about the velocity tracking optimal control problem for 3D critical convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations defined on a simply connected bounded domain $\mathbb{D}\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Kush Kinra , Fernanda Cipriano