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Motion planning is a key aspect of robotics. A common approach to address motion planning problems is trajectory optimization. Trajectory optimization can represent the high-level behaviors of robots through mathematical formulations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Fatemeh Rastgar

In this paper we will discuss some new developments in the design of numerical methods for optimal control problems of Lagrangian systems on Lie groups. We will construct these geometric integrators using discrete variational calculus on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 Leonardo Colombo , Fernando Jimenez , David Martin de Diego

Gaussian wavepacket dynamics has proven to be a useful semiclassical approximation for quantum simulations of high-dimensional systems with low anharmonicity. Compared to Heller's original local harmonic method, the variational Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani , Jiří JL Vaníček

In this article, we investigate the convergence rate of the discrete-time Clark--Ocone formula provided by Akahori--Amaba--Okuma [1]. In that paper, they mainly focus on the $L_{2}$-convergence rate of the first-order error estimate related…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Tsubasa Nishimura , Kenji Yasutomi , Tomooki Yuasa

This article deals with the numerical integration in time of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. The main application is the numerical simulation of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. The authors perform a change of unknown so that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Christophe Besse , Guillaume Dujardin , Ingrid Lacroix-Violet

This paper proposes a novel and efficient optimization-based method for generating near time-optimal trajectories for holonomic vehicles navigating through complex but structured environments. The approach aims to solve the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Louis Callens , Bastiaan Vandewal , Ibrahim Ibrahim , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

As a model of more general contour integration problems we consider the numerical calculation of high-order derivatives of holomorphic functions using Cauchy's integral formula. Bornemann (2011) showed that the condition number of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-01 Folkmar Bornemann , Georg Wechslberger

There has been a wave of interest in applying machine learning to study dynamical systems. We present a Hamiltonian neural network that solves the differential equations that govern dynamical systems. This is an equation-driven machine…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Marios Mattheakis , David Sondak , Akshunna S. Dogra , Pavlos Protopapas

In the present work, an attempted was made to develop a numerical algorithm by the use of new orthogonal hybrid functions formed from hybrid of piecewise constant orthogonal sample-and-hold functions and piecewise linear orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Seshu Kumar Damarla , Madhusree Kundu

This paper considers the problem of real-time mode scheduling in linear time-varying switched systems subject to a quadratic cost functional. The execution time of hybrid control algorithms is often prohibitive for real-time applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Anastasia Mavrommati , Jarvis A. Schultz , Todd D. Murphey

We consider the speed planning problem for a robotic manipulator. In particular, we present an algorithm for finding the time-optimal speed law along an assigned path that satisfies velocity and acceleration constraints and respects the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli , Andrea Minari , Akos Nagy , Istvan Vajk

Classical optimization is a cornerstone of the success of variational quantum algorithms, which often require determining the derivatives of the cost function relative to variational parameters. The computation of the cost function and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Muhammad Umer , Eleftherios Mastorakis , Dimitris G. Angelakis

We discuss an elementary derivation of variational symmetries and corresponding integrals of motion for the Lagrangian systems depending on acceleration. Providing several examples, we make the manuscript accessible to a wide range of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Ege Coban , Ilmar Gahramanov , Dilara Kosva

Accelerated gradient methods have had significant impact in machine learning -- in particular the theoretical side of machine learning -- due to their ability to achieve oracle lower bounds. But their heuristic construction has hindered…

Computation · Statistics 2018-02-16 Michael Betancourt , Michael I. Jordan , Ashia C. Wilson

We show how to increase the order of one-dimensional discrete gradient numerical integrator without losing its advantages, such as exceptional stability, exact conservation of the energy integral and exact preservation of the trajectories…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 Jan L. Cieśliński , Bogusław Ratkiewicz

Explicit step-truncation tensor methods have recently proven successful in integrating initial value problems for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the combination of non-linearity and stiffness may introduce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Abram Rodgers , Daniele Venturi

We introduce a systematic construction of higher-order matrix product operator (MPO) approximations of the time evolution operator for generic (short and long range) one-dimensional Hamiltonians. We demonstrate the utility of our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Maarten Van Damme , Jutho Haegeman , Ian McCulloch , Laurens Vanderstraeten

We address the problem of estimating a high-dimensional matrix from linear measurements, with a focus on designing optimal rank-adaptive algorithms. These algorithms infer the matrix by estimating its singular values and the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Frédéric Zheng , Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutiere

In this study, we consider a numerical implementation of the nonlinear Rosenbluth-Trubnikov collision operator for particle simulations in plasma physics in the framework of the finite element method (FEM). The relevant particle evolution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Zhixin Lu , Guo Meng , Tomasz Tyranowski , Alex Chankin

In this paper, we present an~algorithm that computes funnels along trajectories of systems of ordinary differential equations. A funnel is a time-varying set of states containing the given trajectory, for which the evolution from within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jiří Fejlek , Stefan Ratschan