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This work investigates the optimal control of the variable-exponent subdiffusion, which extends the work [Gunzburger and Wang, {\it SIAM J. Control Optim.} 2019] to the variable-exponent case to account for the multiscale and crossover…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Yiqun Li , Mengmeng Liu , Wenlin Qiu , Xiangcheng Zheng

We consider a class of monotone systems in which the control signal multiplies the state. Among other applications, such bilinear systems can be used to model the evolutionary dynamics of HIV in the presence of combination drug therapy. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Neil K. Dhingra , Marcello Colombino , Mihailo R. Jovanović , Anders Rantzer , Roy S. Smith

This paper is devoted to the study of the dynamic optimization of several controlled crowd motion models in the general planar settings, which is an application of a class of optimal control problems involving a general nonconvex sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Tan H. Cao , Nilson Chapagain , Haejoon Lee , Phung Ngoc Thi , Nguyen Nang Thieu

Finite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems with multiple time-scales are obtained when modeling chemical reaction kinetics with ordinary differential equations. Such stiff systems are computationally hard to solve and therefore,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-03 Marcus Heitel , Robin Verschueren , Moritz Diehl , Dirk Lebiedz

A class of optimal control problems of hybrid nature governed by semilinear parabolic equations is considered. These problems involve the optimization of switching times at which the dynamics, the integral cost, and the bounds on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Sébastien Court , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

In this paper we consider optimal control problems for a parabolic system modeling a therapy, based on oncolytic viruses, for the glioma brain cancer. Using several techniques typical of functional analysis, we prove the global in time well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mauro Garavello , Elena Rossi

Here an original idea is suggested to prove the existence of optimal control for some types of non- linear problems. The obtained results can be considered as individual existence theorems (in some sense).

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. A. Niftiyev

In this paper, optimal time control problems and optimal target control problems are studied for the approximately null-controllable heat equations. Compared with the existed results on these problems, the boundary of control variables are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Ning Chen , Yanqing Wang , Dong-Hui Yang

This paper is concerned with the existence of optimal controls for backward stochastic partial differential equations with random coefficients, in which the control systems are represented in an abstract evolution form, i.e. backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Qingxin Meng , Yang Shen , Peng Shi

Solutions to optimal control problems can be discontinuous, even if all the functionals defining the problem are smooth. This can cause difficulties when numerically computing solutions to these problems. While conventional numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Lucian Nita , Eric C. Kerrigan , Eduardo M. G. Vila , Yuanbo Nie

We consider optimal control of the scalar wave equation where the control enters as a coefficient in the principal part. Adding a total variation penalty allows showing existence of optimal controls, which requires continuity results for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Christian Clason , Karl Kunisch , Philip Trautmann

We extend the Boltzmann-Hamel equations to the optimal control setting, producing a set of equations for both kinematic and dynamic nonholonomic optimal control problems. In particular, we will show the dynamic optimal control problem can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Jared M. Maruskin , Anthony M. Bloch

We investigate how to control optimally a traffic flow through a junction on the line by acting only on speed reduction or traffic light at the junction. We show the existence of an optimal control and, under structure assumptions, provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 P. Cardaliaguet , P. E. Souganidis

In this paper, we address an optimal distributed control problem for a non-local model of phase-field type, describing the evolution of tumour cells in presence of a nutrient. The model couples a non-local and viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Matteo Fornoni

This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Andrew Lamperski , Khem Raj Ghusinga , Abhyudai Singh

Here and in a follow-on paper, we consider a simple control problem in which the underlying dynamics depend on a parameter $a$ that is unknown and must be learned. In this paper, we assume that $a$ is bounded, i.e., that $|a| \le…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Jacob Carruth , Maximilian F. Eggl , Charles Fefferman , Clarence W. Rowley

In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based framework for approximating solutions to infinite-dimensional optimization problems: calculus of variations problems and optimal control problems. Our approach leverages offline training on data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Gage MacLin , Venanzio Cichella , Andrew Patterson , Irene Gregory

In this paper we study optimal control problem for non local Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system which models phase separation of binary fluids in porous media. We consider the system in two dimensional bounded domain with regular potential. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Sheetal Dharmatti , Mahendranath PL N

We present a set-oriented graph-based computational framework for continuous-time optimal transport over nonlinear dynamical systems. We recover provably optimal control laws for steering a given initial distribution in phase space to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover

In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems for Allen-Cahn equations with singular nonlinearities and a dynamic boundary condition involving singular nonlinearities and the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The approach covers both the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Pierluigi Colli , Jürgen Sprekels