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We consider the optimal control design problem for discrete-time LTI systems with state feedback, when the actuation signal is subject to unmeasurable switching propagation delays, due to e.g. the routing in a multi-hop communication…

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In this paper, we present some properties of time optimal controls for linear ODEs with the ball-type control constraint. More precisely, for an optimal control, we build up an upper bound for the number of its switching points; show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Shulin Qin , Gengsheng Wang , Huaiqiang Yu

The paper deals with an optimal control problem in a dynamical system described by a linear differential equation with the Caputo fractional derivative. The goal of control is to minimize a Bolza-type cost functional, which consists of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Mikhail Gomoyunov

Feedback optimization refers to a class of methods that steer a control system to a steady state that solves an optimization problem. Despite tremendous progress on the topic, an important problem remains open: enforcing state constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Pol Mestres , Jorge Cortés , W. P. M. H. Heemels

Necessary optimality conditions and numerical methods for solving an optimal control problem for a linear continuous-time dynanical system with controlled coefficients and quadratic goal functional are discussed.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Olga V. Baturina , Alexander V. Bulatov , Vadim F. Krotov

Novel nonlinear damping control is proposed for the second-order systems. The proportional output feedback is combined with the damping term which is quadratic to the output derivative and inverse to the set-point distance. The global…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Michael Ruderman

In this work, we investigate optimal control of a Brinkman equation couple with sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation. The Cahn-Hilliard equation is endowed with a source term accounting for mass exchange and the velocity equation contains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Manika Bag

In this paper, co-states are used to develop a framework that desensitizes the optimal cost. A general formulation for an optimal control problem with fixed final time is considered. The proposed scheme involves elevating the parameters of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Venkata Ramana Makkapati , Dipankar Maity , Mehregan Dor , Panagiotis Tsiotras

When a malfunction causes a control system to lose authority over a subset of its actuators, achieving a task may require spending additional energy in order to compensate for the effect of uncontrolled inputs. To understand this increase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Ram Padmanabhan , Melkior Ornik

We focus on optimal control problems governed by elliptic, quasilinear PDEs. Though there are various examples of such problems in the literature, we make an attempt at describing some general principles by dealing with three basic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Pablo Pedregal

An optimal control problem for the continuity equation is considered. The aim of a controller is to maximize the total mass within a target set at a given type moment. An iterative numerical algorithm for solving this problem is presented.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Nikolay Pogodaev

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

The first-order optimality conditions for a generic nonlinear optimization problem are generated as part of the terminal transversality conditions of an optimal control problem. It is shown that the Lagrangian of the optimization problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-17 I. M. Ross

The present work deals with quantitative two-phase reach-avoid problems on nonlinear control systems. This class of optimal control problem requires the plant's state to visit two (rather than one) target sets in succession while minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Alexander Weber , Alexander Knoll

In this paper, an optimal control problem is considered where a target vehicle aims to reach a desired location in minimum time while avoiding a dynamic engagement zone. Using simple motion, four potential approaches are considered. First,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-18 Isaac E. Weintraub , Alexander Von Moll , Christian Carrizales , Nicholas Hanlon , Zachariah Fuchs

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential system with a stopping time terminal cost functional. We establish the stochastic maximum principle for this new kind of an optimal control problem by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Shuzhen Yang

In this chapter, we are concerned with inverse optimal control problems, i.e., optimization models which are used to identify parameters in optimal control problems from given measurements. Here, we focus on linear-quadratic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Stephan Dempe , Markus Friedemann , Felix Harder , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

This article treats two problems dealing with control of linear systems in the presence of a jammer that can sporadically turn off the control signal. The first problem treats the standard reachability problem, and the second treats the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Sukumar Srikant , Debasish Chatterjee

Time optimal control problems for some non-smooth systems in general form are considered. The non-smoothness is caused by singularity. It is proved that Pontryagin's maximum principle holds for at least one optimal relaxed control. Thus,…

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