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Controlled Lagrangian and matching techniques are developed for the stabilization of relative equilibria and equilibria of discrete mechanical systems with symmetry as well as broken symmetry. Interesting new phenomena arise in the…

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Optimal quantum control of continuous variable systems poses a formidable computational challenge because of the high-dimensional character of the system dynamics. The framework of quantum invariants can significantly reduce the complexity…

In this paper we study optimal control problems with either fractional or regional fractional $p$-Laplace equation, of order $s$ and $p\in [2,\infty)$, as constraints over a bounded open set with Lipschitz continuous boundary. The control,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Harbir Antil , Mahamadi Warma

We study a time-optimal control problem of a two-peakon collision. First, we state the controllability. Next, we find the time-optimal strategy. This is done via the HamiltonJacobi-Bellman equation and the dynamic programming method. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Tomasz Cieślak , Bidesh Das

In this paper, we consider a geometric formalism for optimal control of underactuated mechanical systems. Our techniques are an adaptation of the classical Skinner and Rusk approach for the case of Lagrangian dynamics with higher-order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Colombo , D. Martin de Diego , M. Zuccalli

We consider the problem of estimating the possibly non-convex cost of an agent by observing its interactions with a nonlinear, non-stationary and stochastic environment. For this inverse problem, we give a result that allows to estimate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Émiland Garrabé , Hozefa Jesawada , Carmen Del Vecchio , Giovanni Russo

This paper details a methodology to transcribe an optimal control problem into a nonlinear program for generation of the trajectories that optimize a given functional by approximating only the highest order derivatives of a given system's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Thomas L. Ahrens , Ian M. Down , Manoranjan Majji

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

The control of relaxation-type systems of ordinary differential equations is investigated using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. First, we recast the model as a singularly perturbed dynamics which we embed in a family of controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Michael Herty , Hicham Kouhkouh

Infinite-time nonlinear optimal regulation control is widely utilized in aerospace engineering as a systematic method for synthesizing stable controllers. However, conventional methods often rely on linearization hypothesis, while recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Han Wang , Di Wu , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong , Xu Huang

This article develops variational integrators for a class of underactuated mechanical systems using the theory of discrete mechanics. Further, a discrete optimal control problem is formulated for the considered class of systems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Siddharth H. Nair , Ravi N. Banavar

We study a time minimization problem on the group of motions of a plane with admissible control in a half-disk. The considered control system describes a model of a car that can move forward on a plane and turn in place. Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Alexey Mashtakov

Linear time-invariant control systems can be considered as finitely generated modules over the commutative principal ideal ring $\mathbb{R}[\frac{d}{dt}]$ of linear differential operators with respect to the time derivative. The Kalman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Cédric Join , Emmanuel Delaleau , Michel Fliess

We explore the approximation of feedback control of integro-differential equations containing a fractional Laplacian term. To obtain feedback control for the state variable of this nonlocal equation we use the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Alessandro Alla , Marta D'Elia , Christian Glusa , Hugo Oliveira

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

We prove necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for a problem of the calculus of variations with time delays, where the delay in the unknown function is different from the delay in its derivative. Then, a more general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Mohammed Benharrat , Delfim F. M. Torres

This work develops a rigorous numerical framework for solving time-dependent Optimal Control Problems (OCPs) governed by partial differential equations, with a particular focus on biomedical applications. The approach deals with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Zahra Mirzaiyan , Pierfrancesco Siena , Pasquale Claudio Africa , Michele Girfoglio , Gianluigi Rozza

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with state constraints. Here, the state constraints mean the constraints about the path of state. In order to show the maximum principe for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Shuzhen Yang

The Pontryagin's Maximum Principle allows, in most cases, the design of optimal controls of affine nonlinear control systems by considering the sign of a smooth function. There are cases, although, where this function vanishes on a whole…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Eduardo Oda , Pedro Aladar Tonelli

This paper studies (single-time and multitime) optimal control problems on a nonholonomic manifold (described either by the kernel of a Gibbs-Pfaff form or by the span of appropriate vector fields). For both descriptions we analyse:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Constantin Udriste