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We obtain higher order necessary conditions for a minimum of a Mayer optimal control problem connected with a nonlinear, control-affine system, where the controls range on an m-dimensional Euclidean space. Since the allowed velocities are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 M. Soledad Aronna , Monica Motta , Franco Rampazzo

A family of optimal control problems for a single and two coupled spinning particles in the Euler-Lagrange formalism is discussed. A characteristic of such problems is that the equations controlling the system are implicit and a reduction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 M. Delgado-Téllez , A. Ibort , T. Rodríguez de la Peña , R. Salmoni

We consider nonsmooth optimal control problems subject to a linear elliptic partial differential equation with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is well-known that local solutions satisfy the celebrated Pontryagin maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider cost minimising control problems, in which the dynamical system is constrained by higher order differential equations of Euler-Lagrange type. Following ideas from a previous paper by the first and the third author, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Franco Cardin , Cristina Giannotti , Andrea Spiro

This paper addresses novel applications to practical modeling of the newly developed theory of necessary optimality conditions in controlled sweeping/Moreau processes with free time and pointwise control and state constraints. Problems of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

In this article, we establish exponential turnpike theorems for a class of nonlinear deterministic meanfield optimal control problems. We carry out our analysis simultaneously in the so-called Lagrangian and Eulerian frameworks. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Giovanni Colombo , Denis Shishmintsev , Emmanuel Trélat

We establish a variety of results extending the well-known Pontryagin maximum principle of optimal control to discrete-time optimal control problems posed on smooth manifolds. These results are organized around a new theorem on critical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Robert Kipka , Rohit Gupta

A controlled sweeping process with prox-regular set, $W^{1,2}$-controls, and separable endpoints constraints is considered in this paper. Existence of optimal solutions is established and local optimality conditions are derived via strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Chadi Nour , Vera Zeidan

In this note, we develop the first-order theory of optimal control problems with box constraints on the control. We emphasize the precise modification of Pontryagin's maximum principle when the admissible control set is compact, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Louis Shuo Wang

In this paper, we describe a constrained Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for the optimal control of nonholonomic mechanical systems. In particular, we aim to minimize a cost functional, given initial and final conditions where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Rohit Gupta , David Martin de Diego

In this article, we derive first-order necessary optimality conditions for a constrained optimal control problem formulated in the Wasserstein space of probability measures. To this end, we introduce a new notion of localised metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Benoît Bonnet , Hélène Frankowska

We discuss a mathematical framework for analysis of optimal control problems on infinite-dimensional manifolds. Such problems arise in study of optimization for partial differential equations with some symmetry. It is shown that some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Robert J. Kipka , Yuri S. Ledyaev

We formulate nonlinear nonlocal integro-PDE with memory, biloaded (boundary integrals load the ambient space, and the ambient space loads the boundary), and the associated optimal control problems. We derive part of the necessary conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 S. A. Belbas

The paper is mostly devoted to applications of a novel optimal control theory for perturbed sweeping/Moreau processes to two practical dynamical models. The first model addresses mobile robot dynamics with obstacles, and the second one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

An optimal control problem for a semilinear elliptic equation of divergence form is considered. Both the leading term and the semilinear term of the state equation contain the control. The well-known Pontryagin type maximum principle for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Hongwei Lou , Jiongmin Yong

This paper mainly focuses on solving the dynamic optimization of the planar controlled crowd motion models with obstacles which is an application of a class of optimal control problems governed by a general perturbed nonconvex sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tan Cao , Boris Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

We generalize the Maximum Principle for free end point optimal control problems involving sweeping systems derived in [9] to cover the case where the end point is constrained to take values in a certain set. As in [9], an ingenious smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 M. d. R. de Pinho , M. Margarida A. Ferreira , Georgi Smirnov

Existence of optimal solutions and necessary optimality conditions for a controlled version of Moreau's sweeping process are derived. The control is a measurable ingredient of the dynamics and the constraint set is a polyhedron. The novelty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Giovanni Colombo , Paolo Gidoni

In this paper, we derive a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. Our framework is actually much more general, and we treat optimal control problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

We study a class of optimal control problems governed by nonlinear stochastic equations of monotone type under certain coercivity and linear growth conditions. We give first order necessary conditions of optimality. A stochastic Pontryagin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Ioana Ciotir , Nicolas Forcadel , Piero Visconti , Hasnaa Zidani