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A gradient-enhanced functional tensor train cross approximation method for the resolution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations associated to optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamics is presented. The procedure uses samples…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Luca Saluzzi

In arXiv:2305.03945 [math.NA], a first-order optimization algorithm has been introduced to solve time-implicit schemes of reaction-diffusion equations. In this research, we conduct theoretical studies on this first-order algorithm equipped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Shu Liu , Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Environmental management optimizing a long-run objective is an ergodic control problem whose resolution can be achieved by solving an associated non-local Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation having an effective Hamiltonian. Focusing on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Hidekazu Yoshioka , Motoh Tsujimura , Yuta Yaegashi

We consider the optimal control of solutions of first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, where the Hamiltonian is convex with linear growth. This models the problem of steering the propagation of a front by constructing an obstacle. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Philip Jameson Graber

This paper develops a primal-dual dynamical system where the coefficients are designed in closed-loop way for solving a convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. We first introduce a ``second-order primal" +…

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We present a hierarchical model predictive control approach for large-scale systems based on dual decomposition. The proposed scheme allows coupling in both dynamics and constraints between the subsystems and generates a primal feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Minh Dang Doan , Tamás Keviczky , Bart De Schutter

Optimal control problems involving hybrid binary-continuous control costs are challenging due to their lack of convexity and weak lower semicontinuity. Replacing such costs with their convex relaxation leads to a primal-dual optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Christian Clason , Kazufumi Ito , Karl Kunisch

In this paper, a class of high order numerical schemes is proposed for solving Hamilton-Jacobi (H-J) equations. This work is regarded as an extension of our previous work for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, see Christlieb et al.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Andrew Christlieb , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang

We present a novel framework for solving optimal transport (OT) problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi (HJ) equation, whose viscosity solution uniquely characterizes the OT map. By leveraging the method of characteristics, we derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yesom Park , Shu Liu , Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher

We present a fast sweeping method for a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations that arise from time-independent problems in optimal control theory. The basic method in two dimensions uses a four point stencil and is extremely simple to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Christian Parkinson

This paper investigates the convergence properties of the upwind difference scheme for the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation, a central partial differential equation in optimal control theory. First, assuming the existence of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Daisuke Inoue , Yuji Ito , Takahito Kashiwabara , Norikazu Saito , Hiroaki Yoshida

A learning technique for finite horizon optimal control problems and its approximation based on polynomials is analyzed. It allows to circumvent, in part, the curse dimensionality which is involved when the feedback law is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Karl Kunisch , Donato Vásquez-Varas

We propose a neural network approach that yields approximate solutions for high-dimensional optimal control problems and demonstrate its effectiveness using examples from multi-agent path finding. Our approach yields controls in a feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Derek Onken , Levon Nurbekyan , Xingjian Li , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Lars Ruthotto

This paper presents a novel method of global adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) for the adaptive optimal control of nonlinear polynomial systems. The strategy consists of relaxing the problem of solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Yu Jiang , Zhong-Ping Jiang

We propose an approach to trajectory optimization for piecewise polynomial systems based on the recently proposed graphs of convex sets framework. We instantiate the framework with a convex relaxation of optimal control based on occupation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Etienne Buehrle , Ömer Şahin Taş , Christoph Stiller

General distribution steering is intrinsically an infinite-dimensional problem, when the continuous distributions to steer are arbitrary. We put forward a moment representation of the primal system for control in [42]. However, the system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Guangyu Wu , Anders Lindquist

In this article, two methods for solving mean-field type optimal control problems are proposed and investigated. The two methods are iterative methods: at each iteration, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved, for a terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Laurent Pfeiffer

We treat infinite horizon optimal control problems by solving the associated stationary Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation numerically to compute the value function and an optimal feedback law. The dynamical systems under consideration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Mathias Oster , Leon Sallandt , Reinhold Schneider

This work presents a universal accelerated first-order primal-dual method for affinely constrained convex optimization problems. It can handle both Lipschitz and H\"{o}lder gradients but does not need to know the smoothness level of the…

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