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Orthogonal collocation methods are direct approaches for solving optimal control problems (OCP). A high solution accuracy is achieved with few optimization variables, making it more favorable for embedded and real-time NMPC applications.…
This paper considers the optimal control for hybrid systems whose trajectories transition between distinct subsystems when state-dependent constraints are satisfied. Though this class of systems is useful while modeling a variety of…
This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…
We study the Optimal Control Problem (OCP) for regular linear differential-algebraic systems (DAEs). To this end, we introduce the input index, which allows, on the one hand, to characterize the space of consistent initial values in terms…
This paper details a methodology to transcribe an optimal control problem into a nonlinear program for generation of the trajectories that optimize a given functional by approximating only the highest order derivatives of a given system's…
In this paper, we consider a family of simultaneous distributed-boundary optimal control problems ($P_{\alpha}$) on the internal energy and the heat flux for a system governed by a mixed elliptic variational equality with a parameter…
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) has been extensively used to model high and low Reynolds number flows, free surface flows and collapse of dams, study pore-scale flow and dispersion, elasticity, and thermal problems. In different…
We consider a bounded domain $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ whose regular boundary $\partial\Omega$ consists of the union of two disjoint portions $\Gamma_{1}$ and $\Gamma_{2}$ with $meas(\Gamma_{1})>0$. The convergence of a family of…
We propose a robust model predictive control (MPC) method for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with norm-bounded additive disturbances and model uncertainty. In our method, at each time step we solve a finite time robust optimal…
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…
In this paper we study the mixed virtual element approximation to an elliptic optimal control problem with boundary observations. The objective functional of this type of optimal control problem contains the outward normal derivatives of…
We present a new numerical method for solving the elliptic homogenization problem. The main idea is that the missing effective matrix is reconstructed by solving the local least-squares in an offline stage, which shall be served as the…
We consider discontinuous Galerkin methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem and we propose multigrid methods to solve the discretized system. We prove that the $W$-cycle algorithm is uniformly convergent in the energy…
In this paper, we study numerical methods for the homogenization of linear second-order elliptic equations in nondivergence-form with periodic diffusion coefficients and large drift terms. Upon noting that the effective diffusion matrix can…
Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…
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