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Optimal control of bilinear systems has been a well-studied subject in the area of mathematical control. However, techniques for solving emerging optimal control problems involving an ensemble of structurally identical bilinear systems are…

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We consider a class of parameter-dependent optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs with constraints of general type on the control variable. Applying the concept of variational discretization, [4], together with techniques from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Michael Hinze

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms hold great promise for solving quantum control problems on near-term quantum computers. In this work, we employ the hybrid framework that integrates digital quantum simulation with classical optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tangyou Huang , Jing-Jun Zhu , Zhong-Yi Ni

Large-scale networked systems typically operate under resource constraints, and it is also difficult to exactly obtain the network structure between nodes. To address these issues, this paper investigates a sparse optimal control for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Takuya Ikeda , Masaaki Nagahara

In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

In this paper, we consider the problem of computing parameters of an objective function for a discrete-time optimal control problem from state and control trajectories with active control constraints. We propose a novel method of inverse…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Timothy L. Molloy , Jason J. Ford , Tristan Perez

We have recently demonstrated supervised deep learning methods for rapid generation of radiofrequency pulses in magnetic resonance imaging (https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27740, https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28667). Unlike the previous iterative…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Mads Sloth Vinding , David L. Goodwin , Ilya Kuprov , Torben Ellegaard Lund

The radiofrequency (RF) transmit field is severely inhomogeneous at ultrahigh field due to both RF penetration and RF coil design issues. This particularly impairs image quality for sequences that use inversion pulses such as magnetization…

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The article is devoted to the problem of applying the maximum principle for finding optimal control parameters in simulation tasks of interest for a variety of engineering and industrial systems and processes. Especially important is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Ivan V. Kazachkov

This paper introduces a novel approach to the optimal control of linear discrete-time systems subject to bounded disturbances. Our approach is based on the newly established duality between ellipsoidal approximations of reachable and hardly…

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This paper firstly presents the necessary and sufficient conditions for a kind of discrete-time robust stochastic optimal control problem with convex control domains. As it is an "inf sup problem", the classical variational method is…

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Constructing high-fidelity control fields that are robust to control, system, and/or surrounding environment uncertainties is a crucial objective for quantum information processing. Using the two-state Landau-Zener model for illustrative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Matthew D. Grace , Jason Dominy , Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll

Recent results in control systems and numerical integration literature utilize invariant set theory to lift dynamical systems evolving on nonlinear manifolds to those evolving on vector spaces. We leverage this technique to propose an…

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In this paper, we propose an efficient implementation of deep policy gradient method (PGM) for optimal control problems in continuous time. The proposed method has the ability to manage the allocation of computational resources, number of…

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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…

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A general setup for deterministic system identification problems on graphs with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions is introduced. When control nodes are available along the boundary, we apply a discretize-then-optimize method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Mehdi Garrousian , Amirhossein Nouranizadeh

Most quantum processors requires pulse sequences for controlling quantum states. Here, we present an alternative algorithm for computing an optimal pulse sequence in order to perform a specific task, being an implementation of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 John P. S. Peterson , Roberto S. Sarthour , Raymond Laflamme

Quantum control can be employed in quantum metrology to improve the precision limit for the estimation of unknown parameters. The optimal control, however, typically depends on the actual values of the parameters and thus needs to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Han Xu , Lingna Wang , Haidong Yuan , Xin Wang

Periodic driving plays a central role in quantum control, but its application in interacting spin systems is often restricted to near-resonant conditions, where standard averaging techniques remain valid. Here we investigate how detuning…

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