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Time-optimal control for high-order chain-of-integrators systems with full state constraints and arbitrarily given terminal states remains a challenging problem in the optimal control theory domain, yet to be resolved. To enhance further…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Yunan Wang , Chuxiong Hu , Zeyang Li , Shize Lin , Suqin He , Yu Zhu

In this paper we use an affine connection formulation to study an optimal control problem for a class of nonholonomic, under-actuated mechanical systems. In particular, we aim at minimizing the norm-squared of the control input to move the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Islam I. Hussein , Anthony M. Bloch

In an earlier paper (https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1393315), the Switch Point Algorithm was developed for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are either singular or bang-bang or both singular and bang-bang, and which possess a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 William W. Hager

In this paper, we are concerned with local controllability properties of degenerate parabolic equations in bounded domains that evolve in time. More precisely, we deal with the exact controllability to a positive trajectory of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Alfredo S. Gamboa , André da Rocha Lopes , Luis P. Yapu

Optimal control problems of tracking type for a class of linear systems with uncertain parameters in the dynamics are investigated. An affine tracking feedback control input is obtained by considering the minimization of an energy-like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Philipp A. Guth , Karl Kunisch , Sergio S. Rodrigues

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic optimal control problem with jumps under partial information. More precisely, the controlled systems are described by a fully coupled nonlinear multi- dimensional forward-backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-18 Qingxin Meng

In this paper, we study an optimal stopping problem in the presence of model uncertainty and regime switching. The max-min formulation for robust control and the dynamic programming approach are adopted to establish a general theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Siyu Lv , Zhen Wu , Jie Xiong , Xin Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls in infinite dimensions. The control system is governed by a stochastic evolution equation, in which both drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Hélène Frankowska , Xu Zhang

This work studies optimal control problems of systems with uncertain, probabilistically distributed parameters to optimize average performance. Known as Riemann-Stieltjes, average, or ensemble optimal control, this kind of problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-12 M. Soledad Aronna , Gabriel de Lima Monteiro , Oscar Sierra Fonseca

Within this chapter, we discuss control in the coefficients of an obstacle problem. Utilizing tools from H-convergence, we show existence of optimal solutions. First order necessary optimality conditions are obtained after deriving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Andreas Hehl , Denis Khimin , Ira Neitzel , Nicolai Simon , Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner

In this paper, we study an optimal exit time problem with general running and terminal costs and a target $\mathcal{S}\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ having an inner ball property for a nonlinear control system that satisfies mild controllability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Piermarco Cannarsa , Marco Mazzola , Khai T. Nguyen

In this paper we study the conditioning of optimal control problems constrained by linear parabolic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. While we concentrate on a given end-time target function the results hold also when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Luise Blank

Selected results for the stability and optimal control of abstract switched systems in Banach and Hilbert space are reviewed. The dynamics are typically given in a piecewise sense by a family of nonlinearly perturbed evolutions of strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Falk M. Hante

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

We analyse an optimal control with the following features: the dynamical system is linear, and the dependence upon the control parameter is affine. More precisely we consider $\dot x_\alpha(t) = (G + \alpha(t) F)x_\alpha(t)$, where $G$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-26 Vincent Calvez , Pierre Gabriel

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Martin Gugat , Emmanuel Trélat , Enrique Zuazua

The paper puts forward sufficient conditions for local controllability of a control dynamical system. The results obtained are meaningful in the case when the linear approximation to this system is not completely controllable. As a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 E. R. Avakov , G. G. Magaril-Il'yaev

In this article, we give a condition for the global controllability of affine nonlinear control systems with drifts on Euclidean spaces. Under regularity assumptions, the condition is necessary and sufficient in the codimension-1 and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Zhengping Ji , Xiao Zhang , Daizhan Cheng

We study a time-inconsistent singular stochastic control problem for a general one-dimensional diffusion, where time-inconsistency arises from a non-exponential discount function. To address this, we adopt a game-theoretic framework and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Andi Bodnariu , Kristoffer Lindensjö , Neofytos Rodosthenous

In this paper, motivated by the study of optimal control problems for infinite dimensional systems with endpoint state constraints, we introduce the notion of finite codimensional (exact/approximate) controllability. Some equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Xu Liu , Qi Lü , Xu Zhang