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This paper is concerned with the partial information optimal control problem of mean-field type under partial observation, where the system is given by a controlled mean-field forward-backward stochastic differential equation with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-21 Qingxin Meng , Qiuhong Shi , Maoning Tang

We study a trajectory-planning problem whose solution path evolves by means of a Lie group action and passes near a designated set of target positions at particular times. This is a higher-order variational problem in optimal control,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Christopher L. Burnett , Darryl D. Holm , David M. Meier

For a class of stochastic delay evolution equations driven by cylindrical $Q$-Wiener process, we study the Pontryagin's maximum principle for the stochastic recursive optimal control problem. The delays are given as moving averages with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Guomin Liu , Jian Song , Meng Wang

This paper gives a brief contact-geometric account of the Pontryagin maximum principle. We show that key notions in the Pontryagin maximum principle---such as the separating hyperplanes, costate, necessary condition, and normal/abnormal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Tomoki Ohsawa

The paper addresses an optimal ensemble control problem for nonlocal continuity equations on the space of probability measures. We admit the general nonlinear cost functional, and an option to directly control the nonlocal terms of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Roman Chertovskih , Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn

In this work, we consider optimal control problems for mechanical systems on vector spaces with fixed initial and free final state and a quadratic Lagrange term. Specifically, the dynamics is described by a second order ODE containing an…

In this paper we study reduction by symmetry for optimality conditions in optimal control problems of left-invariant affine multi-agent control systems, with partial symmetry breaking cost functions. Our approach emphasizes the role of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Efstratios Stratoglou , Leonardo Colombo , Tomoki Ohsawa

In this article, we explore two distinct issues. Initially, we examine the utilization of the Pontriagin maximum principle in relation to fractional delay differential equations. Additionally, we discuss the optimal approach for solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Jasarat J. Gasimov , Javad A. Asadzade , Nazim I. Mahmudov

This paper addresses the time-optimal control problem for a class of control systems which includes controlled mechanical systems with possible dissipation terms. The Lie algebras associated with such mechanical systems enjoy certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Chyba , N. E. Leonard , E. D. Sontag

Model predictive control offers a powerful framework for managing constrained systems, but its repeated online optimization can become computationally prohibitive. Multiparametric programming addresses this challenge by precomputing optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Lida Lamakani , Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos

This article contributes to a framework for a computational indirect method based on the Pontryagin maximum principle to efficiently solve a class of state constrained time-optimal control problems in the presence of a time-dependent flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Roman Chertovskih , Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

This work develops a control-centric framework for a custom 4-DOF rigid-body manipulator by coupling a reduced-order Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (PMP) controller with a physics-informed Gradient Descent stage. The reduced PMP model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Brock Marcinczyk , Logan E. Beaver

We show that mean field optimal controls satisfy a first order optimality condition (at a.e. time) without any a priori requirement on their spatial regularity. This principle is obtained by a careful limit procedure of the Pontryagin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Stefano Almi , Riccardo Durastanti , Francesco Solombrino

This paper proposes an interior-point framework for constrained optimization problems whose decision variables evolve on matrix Lie groups. The proposed method, termed the Matrix Lie Group Interior-Point Method (MLG-IPM), operates directly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Aclécio J. Santos , Jean C. Pereira , Guilherme V. Raffo

We consider an optimal control problem for a system of local continuity equations on a space of probability measures. Such systems can be viewed as macroscopic models of ensembles of non-interacting particles or homotypic individuals,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Maxim Staritsyn , Nikolay Pogodaev , Roman Chertovskih , Fernando Lobo Pereira

We apply an extension of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle to derive time-optimal controls of two-level quantum systems by means of piecewise constant pulses. Global optimal solutions are obtained for state-to-state transfer in the cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 E. Dionis , D. Sugny

We study the Pontryagin maximum principle by deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for a class of optimal control problems arising in non exchangeable mean field systems, where agents interact through heterogeneous and asymmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Idris Kharroubi , Samy Mekkaoui , Huyên Pham

We study the problem of state transition on a finite time interval with minimal energy supply for linear port-Hamiltonian systems. While the cost functional of minimal energy supply is intrinsic to the port-Hamiltonian structure, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Timm Faulwasser , Jonas Kirchhoff , Volker Mehrmann , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

In this paper we develop necessary conditions for optimality, in the form of the stochastic Pontryagin maximum principle, for controlled equation with delay in the state and with control dependent noise, in the general case of controls $u…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Giuseppina Guatteri , Federica Masiero

In this article, the sufficient Pontryagin's maximum principle for infinite horizon discounted stochastic control problem is established. The sufficiency is ensured by an additional assumption of concavity of the Hamiltonian function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Bohdan Maslowski , Petr Veverka