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We study an optimal control problem on infinite time horizon with semimartingale strategies, random coefficients and regime switching. The value function and the optimal strategy can be characterized in terms of three systems of backward…

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In this paper we derive a novel characterization result for time-consistent stochastic control problems with higher-order moments, originally formulated by Wang et al. [SIAM J. Control. Optim., 63 (2025), 1560--1589], and newly explore many…

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We consider constrained bilinear optimal control of second-order linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) with a reaction term on the half line, where control arises as a time-dependent reaction coefficient and constraints are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Zhexian Li , Felipe de Barros , Ketan Savla

Optimization-based (OB) alternatives to traditional flux limiters couch preservation of properties such as local bounds and maximum principles into optimization problems, which impose these properties through inequality constraints. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Falko Ruppenthal , Denis Ridzal , Dmitri Kuzmin , Pavel Bochev

We introduce a new and efficient numerical method for multicriterion optimal control and single criterion optimal control under integral constraints. The approach is based on extending the state space to include information on a "budget"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Ajeet Kumar , Alexander Vladimirsky

A class of evolution variational inequalities (EVIs), which comprises ordinary differential equations (ODEs) coupled with variational inequalities (VIs) associated with time-varying set-valued mappings, is proposed in this paper. We first…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Aneel Tanwani , Bernard Brogliato , Christophe Prieur

We consider an optimal control problem for the obstacle problem with an elliptic variational inequality. The obstacle function which is the control function is assumed in $H^{2}$. We use an approximate technique to introduce a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Radouen Ghanem

Many robotics tasks, such as path planning or trajectory optimization, are formulated as optimal control problems (OCPs). The key to obtaining high performance lies in the design of the OCP's objective function. In practice, the objective…

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Optimal pulse patterns (OPPs) are a modulation method in which the switching angles and levels of a switching signal are computed via an offline optimization procedure to minimize a performance metric, typically the harmonic distortions of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Jared Miller , Petros Karamanakos

In this paper, a local-global model reduction method is presented to solve stochastic optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). If the optimal control problems involve uncertainty, we need to use a few…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Lingling Ma , Qiuqi Li , Lijian Jiang

We investigate constrained optimal control problems for linear stochastic dynamical systems evolving in discrete time. We consider minimization of an expected value cost over a finite horizon. Hard constraints are introduced first, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Eugenio Cinquemani , Mayank Agarwal , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

This papers shows the convergence of optimal control problems where the constraint function is discretised by a particle method. In particular, we investigate the viscous Burgers equation in the whole space $\mathbb R$ by using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Jan Marburger , Rene Pinnau

In this paper we propose a new finite element method for solving elliptic optimal control problems with pointwise state constraints, including the distributed controls and the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary controls. The main idea is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Wei Gong , Zhiyu Tan

Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

We consider an optimal control problem governed by a rate-inde\-pendent system with non-convex energy. The state equation is approximated by means of viscous regularization w.r.t.\ to hierarchy of two different Hilbert spaces. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Merlin Andreia , Christian Meyer

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

Optimal control problems driven by evolutionary partial differential equations arise in many industrial applications and their numerical solution is known to be a challenging problem. One approach to obtain an optimal feedback control is…

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The paper concerns the study of equilibrium points, namely the stationary solutions to the closed loop equation, of an infinite dimensional and infinite horizon boundary control problem for linear partial differential equations. Sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Silvia Faggian

We propose in this paper a multilevel correction method to solve optimal control problems constrained by elliptic equations with the finite element method. In this scheme, solving optimization problem on the finest finite element space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Hehu Xie , Ningning Yan

We consider integer-restricted optimal control of systems governed by abstract semilinear evolution equations. This includes the problem of optimal control design for certain distributed parameter systems endowed with multiple actuators,…

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