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For the optimal control problem governed by elliptic equations with interfaces, we present a numerical method based on the Hansbo's Nitsche-XFEM. We followed the Hinze's variational discretization concept to discretize the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Tao Wang , Chaochao Yang , Xiaoping Xie

We study a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving a parabolic equation with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative of orders $s \in (0,1)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, respectively. The spatial fractional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-02 Harbir Antil , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

This study focuses on the numerical discretization methods for the continuous-time discounted linear-quadratic optimal control problem (LQ-OCP) with time delays. By assuming piecewise constant inputs, we formulate the discrete system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Zhanhao Zhang , Steen Hørsholt , John Bagterp Jørgensen

The paper addresses an optimal control problem for a perturbed sweeping process of the rate-independent hysteresis type described by a controlled "play and stop" operator with separately controlled perturbations. This problem can be reduced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Tan H. Cao , Boris S. Mordukhovich

A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-22 Raino A. E. Mäkinen

We consider a space-time finite element method on fully unstructured simplicial meshes for optimal sparse control of semilinear parabolic equations. The objective is a combination of a standard quadratic tracking-type functional including a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

We consider an optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE together with its variational discretization. We provide a condition which allows to decide whether a solution of the necessary first order conditions is a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze

The paper deals with finite element approximations of elliptic Dirichlet boundary control problems posed on two-dimensional polygonal domains. Error estimates are derived for the approximation of the control and the state variables. Special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Thomas Apel , Mariano Mateos , Johannes Pfefferer , Arnd Rösch

This paper is concerned with the design of optimal control for finite-dimensional control-affine nonlinear dynamical systems. We introduce an optimal control problem that specifically optimizes nonlinear observability in addition to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Atiye Alaeddini , Kristi A. Morgansen , Mehran Mesbahi

This paper is concerned with the discretization error analysis of semilinear Neumann boundary control problems in polygonal domains with pointwise inequality constraints on the control. The approximations of the control are piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Johannes Pfefferer , Klaus Krumbiegel

We analyze an optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation. The diffusion is characterized by the spectral fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ with $s \in (1/2,1)$, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We consider the finite element discretization of an optimal Dirichlet boundary control problem for the Laplacian, where the control is considered in $H^{1/2}(\Gamma)$. To avoid computing the latter norm numerically, we realize it using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Michael Karkulik

We propose a novel Galerkin discretization scheme for stochastic optimal control problems on an indefinite time horizon. The control problems are linear-quadratic in the controls, but possibly nonlinear in the state variables, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Ralf Banisch , Carsten Hartmann

We consider a bilinear optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a semilinear elliptic PDE in two and three dimensions. The control variable enters the PDE as a (reaction) coefficient and the cost functional contains point…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Enrique Otarola , Daniel Quero , Matias Sasso

This paper presents a joint optimisation framework for optimal estimation and stochastic optimal control with imperfect information. It provides a estimation and control scheme that can be decomposed into a classical optimal estimation step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Emilien Flayac , Karim Dahia , Bruno Hérissé , Frédéric Jean

We consider a control-constrained parabolic optimal control problem without Tikhonov term in the tracking functional. For the numerical treatment, we use variational discretization of its Tikhonov regularization: For the state and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Nikolaus von Daniels , Michael Hinze

The maximum entropy principle is a powerful tool for solving underdetermined inverse problems. This paper considers the problem of discretizing a continuous distribution, which arises in various applied fields. We obtain the approximating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Ken'ichiro Tanaka , Alexis Akira Toda

We present a fully discrete finite element method for the interior null controllability problem subject to the wave equation. For the numerical scheme, piece-wise affine continuous elements in space and finite differences in time are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper, we consider the inverse optimal control problem for the discrete-time linear quadratic regulator, over finite-time horizons. Given observations of the optimal trajectories, and optimal control inputs, to a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Han Zhang , Jack Umenberger , Xiaoming Hu

In this work, an adaptive edge element method is developed for an H(curl)-elliptic constrained optimal control problem. We use the lowest-order Nedelec's edge elements of first family and the piecewise (element-wise) constant functions to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Bowen Li , Jun Zou