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In this letter, we study the energy-optimal control of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems in discrete time. For continuous-time pH systems, energy-optimal control problems are strictly dissipative by design. This property, stating that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Arijit Sarkar , Vaibhav Kumar Singh , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

We analyze the consequences that the so-called turnpike property has on the long-time behavior of the value function corresponding to a finite-dimensional linear-quadratic optimal control problem with general terminal cost and constrained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Carlos Esteve , Hicham Kouhkouh , Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

We consider irreversible and coupled reversible-irreversible nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and the respective sets of thermodynamic equilibria. In particular, we are concerned with optimal state transitions and output stabilization on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to linear-quadratic mean field stochastic optimal control problems. By formulating an ergodic control framework, we characterize the convergence between the finite time horizon control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Erhan Bayraktar , Jiamin Jian

The concept of turnpike connects the solution of long but finite time horizon optimal control problems with steady state optimal controls. A key ingredient of the analysis of the turnpike is the linear quadratic regulator problem and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jan Heiland , Enrique Zuazua

In this work, we study the steady-state (or periodic) exponential turnpike property of optimal control problems in Hilbert spaces. The turnpike property, which is essentially due to the hyperbolic feature of the Hamiltonian system resulting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Emmanuel Trelat , Can Zhang , Enrique Zuazua

Considering a general nonlinear dissipative finite dimensional optimal control problem in fixed time horizon T , we establish a two-term asymptotic expansion of the value function as $T\rightarrow+\infty$. The dominating term is T times the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Veljko Askovic , Emmanuel Trélat , Hasnaa Zidani

Optimal control problems with symmetries often admit a non stationary turnpike property called trim turnpike, which characterizes the convergence of optimal solutions to certain symmetry induced trajectories called trim primitives. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Sofya Maslovskaya , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Boris Wembe

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem for a nonhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equation having regime switching with a quadratic functional in the large time horizon. This is a continuation of the paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for a linear homogeneous stochastic differential equation having regime switching with purely quadratic functional in the large time horizons. We establish the so-called turnpike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We investigate optimal control of linear port-Hamiltonian systems with control constraints, in which one aims to perform a state transition with minimal energy supply. Decomposing the state space into dissipative and non-dissipative (i.e.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Manuel Schaller , Friedrich Philipp , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann , Bernhard Maschke

In this manuscript, we study the turnpike property in stochastic discrete-time optimal control problems for interacting agents. Extending previous deterministic results, we show that the turnpike effect persists in the presence of noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Fabio Cassini , Chiara Segala

We investigate pathwise turnpike behavior of discrete-time stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Our analysis is based on a novel strict dissipativity notion for such problems, in which a stationary stochastic process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser , Michael Heinrich Baumann , Lars Grüne

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

We establish structural properties of optimal stopping problems under time-consistent dynamic (coherent) risk measures, focusing on value function monotonicity and the existence of control limit (threshold) optimal policies. While such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Xingyu Ren , Michael C. Fu , Steven I. Marcus

This paper focuses on infinite-horizon optimal control problems for dissipative systems and the relations to their finite-horizon formulations. We show that, for a large class of problems, dissipativity of the state equation, when a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Matteo Della Rossa , Thiago Alves Lima , Lorenzo Freddi

This paper analyses the interplay between dissipativity and stability properties in continuous-time infinite-horizon Optimal Control Problems (OCPs). We establish several relations between these properties, which culminate in a set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Timm Faulwasser , Christopher M. Kellett

Motivated by mechanical systems with symmetries, we focus on optimal control problems possessing symmetries. Following recent works, which generalized the classical concept of static turnpike to manifold turnpike, we extend the exponential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Kathrin Flaßkamp , Sofya Maslovskaya , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Boris Wembe

In this paper, we introduce turnpike arguments in the context of optimal state estimation. In particular, we show that the optimal solution of the state estimation problem involving all available past data serves as turnpike for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Julian D. Schiller , Lars Grüne , Matthias A. Müller

Physical systems driven away from equilibrium by an external controller dissipate heat to the environment; the excess entropy production in the thermal reservoir can be interpreted as a "cost" to transform the system in a finite time. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-31 Jérémie Klinger , Grant M. Rotskoff