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The controller of an input-affine system is determined through minimizing a time-varying objective function, where stabilization is ensured via a Lyapunov function decay condition as constraint. This constraint is incorporated into the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Patrick Schmidt , Thomas Göhrt , Stefan Streif

For a given Lagrangian $L:[0,T]\times M\times M^\ast\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ and probability measures $\mu\in\mathcal{P}(M^\ast)$, $\nu\in \mathcal{P}(M)$, we introduce the stochastic ballistic transportation problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Alistair Barton , Nassif Ghoussoub

In this paper, we present a Longstaff-Schwartz-type algorithm for optimal stopping time problems based on the Brownian motion filtration. The algorithm is based on Le\~ao, Ohashi and Russo and, in contrast to previous works, our methodology…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-05 Sérgio C. Bezerra , Alberto Ohashi , Francesco Russo , Francys de Souza

We present a new algorithm for the discretization of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations for the study of plasmas in the kinetic regime. Using the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the spatial discretization, we obtain a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 J. Juno , A. Hakim , J. TenBarge , E. Shi , W. Dorland

This paper deals with a second order dynamical system with a Tikhonov regularization term in connection to the minimization problem of a convex Fr\'echet differentiable function. The fact that beside the asymptotically vanishing damping we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Szilárd Csaba László

We present a flexible data-driven method for dynamical system analysis that does not require explicit model discovery. The method is rooted in well-established techniques for approximating the Koopman operator from data and is implemented…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jason J. Bramburger , Giovanni Fantuzzi

The martingale optimal transport aims to optimally transfer a probability measure to another along the class of martingales. This problem is mainly motivated by the robust superhedging of exotic derivatives in financial mathematics, which…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Gaoyue Guo , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

We consider model order reduction of parameterized Hamiltonian systems describing nondissipative phenomena, like wave-type and transport dominated problems. The development of reduced basis methods for such models is challenged by two main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Cecilia Pagliantini

In a Hilbert space, we propose a class of general mixed-order primal-dual dynamical systems with Tikhonov regularization for a convex optimization problem with linear equality constraints. The proposed dynamical system is characterized by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Honglu Li , Rong Hu , Xin He , Yibin Xiao

This paper studies the problem of steering the distribution of a discrete-time dynamical system from an initial distribution to a target distribution in finite time. The formulation is fully nonlinear, allowing the use of general control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Approximate dynamic programming has been investigated and used as a method to approximately solve optimal regulation problems. However, the extension of this technique to optimal tracking problems for continuous time nonlinear systems has…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Huyen Dinh , Shubhendu Bhasin , Warren Dixon

This work proposes an adaptive structure-preserving model order reduction method for finite-dimensional parametrized Hamiltonian systems modeling non-dissipative phenomena. To overcome the slowly decaying Kolmogorov width typical of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Jan S. Hesthaven , Cecilia Pagliantini , Nicolò Ripamonti

This work addresses the problem of constrained motion control of the uncrewed surface vessels. The constraints are imposed on states/inputs of the vehicles due to the physical limitations, mission requirements, and safety considerations. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ram Milan Kumar Verma , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Hemendra Arya

We introduce a (linear) positive and asymptotic preserving method or solving the one-group radiation transport equation. The approximation in space is discretization agnostic: the space approximation can be done with continuous or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Jean-Luc Guermond , Bojan Popov , Jean Ragusa

We study the convergence analysis of continuous-time dynamical systems associated with optimization methods for strongly convex functions. Recent works have proposed systematic constructions of Lyapunov functions for such analysis, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Atsushi Tabei , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

Trajectory following is one of the complicated control problems when its dynamics are nonlinear, stochastic and include a large number of parameters. The problem has significant difficulties including a large number of trials required for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Ali Lenjani

Numerical solutions for the optimal feedback stabilization of discrete time dynamical systems is the focus of this paper. Set-theoretic notion of almost everywhere stability introduced by the Lyapunov measure, weaker than conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Arvind Raghunathan , Umesh Vaidya

We construct Two-Point Flux Approximation (TPFA) finite volume schemes to solve the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamic form, namely the problem originally introduced by Benamou and Brenier. We show numerically that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The considered scenario consists of several ground terminals (GTs) communicating with the UAVs using variable transmission power and fixed data rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Erdem Koyuncu , Maryam Shabanighazikelayeh , Hulya Seferoglu

We study discrete-time finite-horizon optimal control problems in probability spaces, whereby the state of the system is a probability measure. We show that, in many instances, the solution of dynamic programming in probability spaces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Antonio Terpin , Nicolas Lanzetti , Florian Dörfler