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In this paper, we are concerned with optimal control problems evolved on Riemannian manifolds, where the initial and final states satisfy some inequality and equality type constraints, and the control set is a separable metric space. We…
We consider affine control systems with two scalar controls, such that one control vector field vanishes at an equilibrium state. We state two necessary conditions of local controllability around this equilibrium, involving the iterated Lie…
A widely used stochastic plate equation is the classical plate equation perturbed by a term of It\^o's integral. However, it is known that this equation is not exactly controllable even if the controls are effective everywhere in both the…
We prove controllability results for abstract systems of weakly coupled $N$ evolution equations in cascade by a reduced number of boundary or locally distributed controls ranging from a single up to $N-1$ controls. We give applications to…
We consider an optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The problem is discretized by linear finite elements for the state and a variational discrete approach for the control. Based on a…
We examine the minimization of a quadratic cost functional composed of the output and the final state of abstract infinite-dimensional evolution equations in view of existence of solutions and optimality conditions. While the initial value…
In this paper, we study the global approximate multiplicative controllability for nonlinear degenerate parabolic Cauchy-Neumann problems. First, we will obtain embedding results for weighted Sobolev spaces, that have proved decisive in…
The scope of this paper is the analysis and approximation of an optimal control problem related to the Allen-Cahn equation. A tracking functional is minimized subject to the Allen-Cahn equation using distributed controls that satisfy…
A controlled sweeping process with prox-regular set, $W^{1,2}$-controls, and separable endpoints constraints is considered in this paper. Existence of optimal solutions is established and local optimality conditions are derived via strong…
In this paper, in terms of three types of generalized second-order derivatives of a nonsmooth function, we mainly study the corresponding second-order optimality conditions in a Hilbert space and prove the equivalence among these optimality…
Kullback-Leibler (KL) control enables efficient numerical methods for nonlinear optimal control problems. The crucial assumption of KL control is the full controllability of the transition distribution. However, this assumption is often…
In this paper, we investigate Carleman estimate and controllability result for the fully-discrete approximations of a one-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equation with dynamic boundary conditions. We first establish a new discrete Carleman…
We study a system composed of a free quantum particle trapped in a box whose walls can change their position. We prove the global approximate controllability of the system. That is, any initial state can be driven arbitrarily close to any…
A quantum system subject to external fields is said to be controllable if these fields can be adjusted to guide the state vector to a desired destination in the state space of the system. Fundamental results on controllability are reviewed…
A possible definition of strong/symmetric hyperbolicity for a second-order system of evolution equations is that it admits a reduction to first order which is strongly/symmetric hyperbolic. We investigate the general system that admits a…
By extending \cite{bensoussan2015control}, we implement the proposal of Lions \cite{lions14} on studying mean field games and their master equations via certain control problems on the Hilbert space of square integrable random variables. In…
Control of non-episodic, finite-horizon dynamical systems with uncertain dynamics poses a tough and elementary case of the exploration-exploitation trade-off. Bayesian reinforcement learning, reasoning about the effect of actions and future…
The primary focus of this paper is to establish the internal null controllability for the one-dimensional heat equation featuring dynamic boundary conditions. This achievement is realized by introducing a new Carleman estimate and an…
Sufficient conditions for the controllability of a conservative reduced system are given. Several examples illustrating the theory are also presented.