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In this paper we study strongly robust optimal control problems under volatility uncertainty. In the $G$-framework we adapt the stochastic maximum principle to find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a strongly robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Francesca Biagini , Thilo Meyer-Brandis , Bernt Øksendal , Krzysztof Paczka

A general time-inconsistent optimal control problem is considered for stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. Under suitable conditions, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman type equation is derived for the equilibrium value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Jiongmin Yong

Optimizing the controls of quantum systems plays a crucial role in advancing quantum technologies. The time-varying noises in quantum systems and the widespread use of inhomogeneous quantum ensembles raise the need for high-quality quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Xinyu Fei , Lucas T. Brady , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Siqian Shen

Optimal control of bilinear systems has been a well-studied subject in the areas of mathematical and computational optimal control. However, effective methods for solving emerging optimal control problems involving an ensemble of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Shuo Wang , Jr-Shin Li

In this note, we consider the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a time-dependent optimal control problem constrained by a partial differential equation with uncertain inputs. Relying on the Lions' Lemma for deterministic problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Peter Benner , Akwum Onwunta , Martin Stoll

This paper presents a new and straightforward procedure for solving bilinear quadratic optimal control problem. In this method, first the original optimal control problem is transformed into a nonlinear twopoint boundary value problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-09 Hamidreza Ramezanpour , Saeed Setayeshi , Hossein Arabalibeik , Amin Jajarmi

In this article, we investigate the problem of simultaneously steering an uncountable family of finite dimensional time-varying linear systems. We call this class of control problems Ensemble Control, a notion coming from the study of spin…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-10-29 Jr-Shin Li

In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Qixia Zhang

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Chuanzhi Lv , Xunmin Yin , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

We study an optimal control problem in which both the objective function and the dynamic constraint contain an uncertain parameter. Since the distribution of this uncertain parameter is not exactly known, the objective function is taken as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jianxiong Ye , Lei Wang , Changzhi Wu , Jie Sun , Kok Lay Teo , Xiangyu Wang

In this paper, we consider a class of time-optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic equations with mixed control-state constraints and end-point constraints, and without Tikhonov regularization term in the objective function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Huynh Khanh , Bui Trong Kien

A Deterministic affine quadratic optimal control problem is considered. Due to the nature of the problem, optimal controls exist under some very mild conditions. Further, it is shown that under some assumptions, the value function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Yuanchang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

The paper presents results about strong metric subregularity of the optimality mapping associated with the system of first-order necessary optimality conditions for a problem of optimal control of a semilinear parabolic equation. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Nicolai Jork , Vladimir M. Veliov

We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Anderson O. Calixto , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Glauco Valle

In this paper, an open problem is solved, for the stochastic optimal control problem with delay where the control domain is nonconvex and the diffusion term contains both control and its delayed term. Inspired by previous results by \O…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi

We study the interplay between rotating wave approximation and optimal control. In particular, we show that for a wide class of optimal control problems one can choose the control field such that the Hamiltonian becomes time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Maximilian Keck , Matthias M. Müller , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

The minimization of energy-like cost functionals is addressed in the context of optimal control problems. For a general class of dynamical systems, with possibly unstable and nonlinear free dynamics, it is shown that a sequence of solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Sérgio S. Rodrigues

In this paper, we consider an optimal bilinear control problem for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with singular potentials. We show well-posedness of the problem and existence of an optimal control. In addition, the first order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Binhua Feng , Dun Zhao , Pengyu Chen

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem for the coupled system of a nonlinear monotone Dirichlet problem with anisotropic p-Laplacian and matrix-valued nonsmooth controls in its coefficients and a nonlinear equation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-25 T. Durante , O. P. Kupenko , R. Manzo

The literature on continuous-time stochastic optimal control seldom deals with the case of discrete state spaces. In this paper, we provide a general framework for the optimal control of continuous-time Markov chains on finite graphs. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Olivier Guéant , Iuliia Manziuk