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In this article, the optimal control problem for a harmonic oscillator with an inequality constraint is considered. The applied energy of the oscillator during a fixed final time period is used as the performance criterion. The analytical…
The aim of this article is to study the asymptotic behaviour of some low-cost control problems. These problems motivate the study of H-convergence with weakly convergingdata. An improved lower bound for the limit of energy functionals…
We study the time optimal control problem for differential inclusions with a general closed target. We first give the representation of the proximal horizontal subgradients of the minimum time function $\mathcal{T}$ and then, together with…
We consider the problem of planning the aggregate energy consumption for a set of thermostatically controlled loads for demand response, accounting price forecast trajectory and thermal comfort constraints. We address this as a…
We consider a vibrating string that is fixed at one end with Neumann control action at the other end. We investigate the optimal control problem of steering this system from given initial data to rest, in time T , by minimizing an objective…
We consider the semilinear heat equation posed on a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. The control input is a source term localized in some arbitrary nonempty open subset…
We study the time regularity of local weak solutions of the heat equation in the context of local regular symmetric Dirichlet spaces. Under two basic and rather minimal assumptions, namely, the existence of certain cut-off functions and a…
The one-dimensional problem of the nonlinear heat equation is considered. We assume that the heat flow in the origin of coordinates is the power function of time and the initial temperature is zero. Approximate solutions of the problem are…
This paper is concerned with a feedback approximate controllability problem of blowup points for the heat equation. We show that the system is approximately controllable for blowup points with feedback controls and the feedback operator is…
In this paper, we study optimal control problems on the internal energy for a system governed by a class of elliptic boundary hemivariational inequalities with a parameter. The system has been originated by a steady-state heat conduction…
In an optimal control framework, we consider the value $V_T(x)$ of the problem starting from state $x$ with finite horizon $T$, as well as the value $V_\lambda(x)$ of the $\lambda$-discounted problem starting from $x$. We prove that uniform…
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…
The finite-time control problem of quantum systems is investigated in this paper. We first define finite-time stability and present a finite-time Lyapunov stability criterion for finite-dimensional quantum systems in coherence vector…
We study stochastic optimal control problems for (possibly degenerate) McKean-Vlasov controlled diffusions and obtain discrete-time as well as finite interacting particle approximations. (i) Under mild assumptions, we first prove the…
In this paper we establish an observability inequality for the heat equation with bounded potentials on the whole space. Roughly speaking, such a kind of inequality says that the total energy of solutions can be controlled by the energy…
We reassess the concept of transition at minimum work in classical stochastic finite-time thermodynamics, when the system dynamics is modelled by a diffusion process. We show that a well-posed formulation of the optimal control problem…
The paper addresses the problem of time offset synchronization in the presence of temperature variations, which lead to a non-Gaussian environment. In this context, regular Kalman filtering reveals to be suboptimal. A functional…
Let $C(t)$, $t\geq0$ be a Lipschitz set-valued map with closed and (mildly non-)convex values and $f(t, x,u)$ be a map, Lipschitz continuous w.r.t. $x$. We consider the problem of reaching a target $S$ within the graph of $C$ subject to the…
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…
This work presents the derivation of a model for the heating process of the air of a glass dome, where an indoor swimming pool is located in the bottom of the dome. The problem can be reduced from a three dimensional to a two dimensional…