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We consider a velocity tracking problem for stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in a 2D-bounded domain. The control acts on the boundary through an injection-suction device with uncertainty, which acts in accordance with the non-homogeneous…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Nikolai Chemetov , Fernanda Cipriano

In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Martin Gugat , Michael Schuster , Enrique Zuazua

In this article, we investigate a time-optimal state-constrained bilevel optimal control problem whose lower-level dynamics feature a sweeping control process involving a {\it truncated normal cone}. By bilevel, it is meant that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

In optimal control theory, infimum gap means that there is a gap between the infimum values of a given minimum problem and an extended problem, obtained by enlarging the set of original solutions and controls. The gap phenomenon is somewhat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Giovanni Fusco , Monica Motta

We obtain a probabilistic solution to linear-quadratic optimal control problems with state constraints. Given a closed set $\mathcal{D}\subseteq [0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d$, a diffusion $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ must be linearly controlled in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Tiziano De Angelis , Erik Ekström

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 the time optimal control problem with a general target $\mathcal S$ for a class of differential inclusions that satisfy mild smoothness and controllability assumptions. In particular, we do not require Petrov's condition at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Piermarco Cannarsa , Antonio Marigonda , Khai T. Nguyen

We study optimality conditions for various types of control problems like the standard optimal control problem, optimal multiprocesses, problems with infinite horizon or the control of Volterra integral equations. To derive necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Nico Tauchnitz

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

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

This work concentrates on a class of optimal control problems for semilinear parabolic equations subject to control constraint of the form $\|u(t)\|_{L^1(\Omega)} \le \gamma$ for $t \in (0,T)$. This limits the total control that can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Eduardo Casas , Karl Kunisch

This paper presents a unified derivation of transversality conditions in optimal control problems using exact penalty functions. The key regularity condition is that the origin is uniformly separated from the subdifferential of the penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Majid Abbasov

Control systems involving unknown parameters appear a natural framework for applications in which the model design has to take into account various uncertainties. In these circumstances the performance criterion can be given in terms of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Piernicola Bettiol , Nathalie Khalil

We consider a control problem constrained by the unsteady stochastic Stokes equations with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions in connected and bounded domains. In this paper, controls are defined inside the domain as well as on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

In the present work we study the optimal control of an evolution equation with non-smooth dissipation. The solution mapping of this system is non-smooth and hence the analysis is quite challenging. Our approach is to regularize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Tobias Geiger , Daniel Wachsmuth

This note is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by the relativistic Maxwell-Newton-Lorentz equations, which describes the motion of charges particles in electro-magnetic fields and consists of a hyperbolic PDE system coupled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-27 C. Meyer , S. M. Schnepp , O. Thoma

In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems governed by 1D parabolic state-systems of KWC types with dynamic boundary conditions. The state-systems are based on a phase-field model of grain boundary motion, proposed in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Shodai Kubota , Ryota Nakayashiki , Ken Shirakawa

We consider non-autonomous calculus of variations problems with a state constraint represented by a given closed set. We prove that if the interior of the Clarke tangent cone of the state constraint set is non-empty (this is the constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Nathalie Khalil , Sofia O. Lopes

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

The objective of this paper is to weaken the Lipschitz condition to a monotonicity condition and to study the corresponding Pontryagin stochastic maximum principle (SMP) for a mean-field optimal control problem under monotonicity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Bowen He , Juan Li , Zhanxin Li