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In this paper we consider a constrained parabolic optimal control problem. The cost functional is quadratic and it combines the distance of the trajectory of the system from the desired evolution profile together with the cost of a control.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Luka Grubišić , Martin Lazar , Ivica Nakić , Martin Tautenhahn

This article is devoted to the study of null controllability for evolution equations that incorporate both memory and delay effects. The problem is particularly challenging due to the presence of memory integrals and delayed states, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Dev Prakash Jha , Raju K. George

Motivated by infinite-dimensional optimal control problems with endpoint state constraints, in this Note, we introduce the notion of finite codimensional exact controllability for evolution equations. It is shown that this new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Xu Liu , Qi Lu , Xu Zhang

We derive in a direct and rather straightforward way the null controllability of the N-dimensional heat equation in a bounded cylinder with boundary control at one end of the cylinder. We use the so-called flatness approach, which consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Philippe Martin , Lionel Rosier , Pierre Rouchon

In this paper, we present some controllability results for the heat equation in the framework of hierarchic control. We present a Stackelberg strategy combining the concept of controllability with robustness: the main control (the leader)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Liliana Peralta

In this paper, we study the null controllability of the three-dimensional Stokes equations with a memory term. For any positive final time $T>0$, we construct initial conditions such that the null controllability does not hold even if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Enrique Fernández-Cara , José Lucas F. Machado , Diego A. Souza

This paper deals with the hierarchical control of the anisotropic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions and drift terms. We use the Stackelberg-Nash strategy with one leader and two followers. To each fixed leader, we find a Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Idriss Boutaayamou , Lahcen Maniar , Omar Oukdach

In this paper we study the approximate controllability and existence of optimal control of impulsive fractional semilinear delay differential equations with non-local conditions. We use Sadovskii's fixed point theorem, semigroup theory of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Lakshman Mahto , Syed Abbas

We are concerned with the optimal control problem of the well known nonlocal thermistor problem, i.e., in studying the heat transfer in the resistor device whose electrical conductivity is strongly dependent on the temperature. Existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept called the Graph Geometric Control Condition (GGCC). It turns out to be a simple, geometric rewriting of many of the frameworks in which the controllability of PDEs on graphs has been studied. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Kaïs Ammari , Alessandro Duca , Romain Joly , Kévin Le Balc'h

Most existing necessary conditions for optimal control based on adjoining methods require both state and costate information, yet the unobservability of costates for a given feasible trajectory impedes the determination of optimality in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Yunan Wang , Chuxiong Hu , Yujie Lin , Zeyang Li , Shize Lin , Suqin He

This paper examines impulsive controls related to nonautonomous impulsive integro-differential equations in Hilbert space, highlighting their significance. We establish the existence of the mild solution by using fixed point approach and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Garima Gupta , Jaydev Dabas

This paper deals with the problem of internal null-controllability of a heat equation posed on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions and perturbed by a semilinear nonlocal term. We prove the small-time local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Kévin Le Balc'h

In this paper, we discuss the distributed control problem governed by the following parabolic integro-differential equation (PIDE) in the abstract form \begin{eqnarray*} \frac{\partial y}{\partial t} + A y &=& \int_0^t B(t, s) y(s) ds + Gu,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Anil Kumar , Amiya K. Pani , Mohan C. Joshi

This article is devoted to the analysis of control properties for a heat equation with singular potential $\mu/\delta^2$, defined on a bounded $C^2$ domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, where $\delta$ is the distance to the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Umberto Biccari , Enrique Zuazua

We study the exact boundary controllability of a nonlinear coupled system of two Korteweg-de Vries equations on a bounded interval. The model describes the interactions of two weakly nonlinear gravity waves in a stratified fluid. Due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 F. A. Gallego , A. F. Pazoto , I. Rivas

This work addresses a fundamental problem of controllability of open quantum systems, meaning the ability to steer arbitrary initial system density matrix into any final density matrix. We show that under certain general conditions open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 Alexander Pechen

We consider a system of two parabolic equations with a forcing term present in one equation and a cubic coupling term in the other one. We prove that the system is locally null controllable.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Jean-Michel Coron , Sergio Guerrero , Lionel Rosier

In this paper, we design a controller for an interconnected system where a linear Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) is actuated through a linear parabolic heat equation. These dynamics arise in various applications, such as coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Gabriel Velho , Jean Auriol , Islam Boussaada , Riccardo Bonalli

In this paper we investigate null-controllable initial states of the half heat equation controlled from a sub-arc $\omega$ of the unit circle. We also study the projection on positive frequencies of the half-heat equation. For this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Andreas Hartman , Armand Koenig