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Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given as an ordinary differential equation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Patrick Schmidt , Stefan Streif

We first derive a general integral-turnpike property around a set for infinite-dimensional non-autonomous optimal control problems with any possible terminal state constraints, under some appropriate assumptions. Roughly speaking, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Emmanuel Trelat , Can Zhang

This thesis addresses the problem of developing a quantum counter-part of the well established classical theory of control. We dwell on the fundamental fact that quantum states are generally not perfectly distinguishable, and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-21 Paulo E. M. F. Mendonca

An optimal control problem for the continuity equation is considered. The aim of a "controller" is to maximize the total mass within a target set at a given time moment. The existence of optimal controls is established. For a particular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Nikolay Pogodaev

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential system with a stopping time terminal cost functional. We establish the stochastic maximum principle for this new kind of an optimal control problem by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Shuzhen Yang

We present a new proof of the turnpike property for nonlinear optimal control problems, when the running target is a steady control-state pair of the underlying system. Our strategy combines the construction of quasi-turnpike controls via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Borjan Geshkovski , Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover , Spring Berman

We study a control problem where the state equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation of the calculus of variation in a bounded domain, perturbed by noise. We allow the control to act on the boundary and set stochastic boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Stefano Bonaccorsi , Adrian Zalinescu

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with state constraints. Here, the state constraints mean the constraints about the path of state. In order to show the maximum principe for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Shuzhen Yang

A theoretical framework and numerical techniques to solve optimal control problems with a spatial trace term in the terminal cost and governed by regularized nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws are provided. Depending on the spatial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Sébastien Court , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

The paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by the rate-independent system of quasi-static perfect elasto-plasticity. The objective is to optimize the stress field by controlling the displacement at prescribed parts of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Christian Meyer , Stephan Walther

An optimal control problem driven by an ordinary differential equation under continuous state constraints is considered in this study. From an operational point of view, we introduce a discrete state constraints optimal control problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Shuzhen Yang

This paper considers an optimal control problem for a linear mean-field stochastic differential equation having regime switching with quadratic functional in the large time horizons. Our main contribution lies in establishing the strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hongwei Mei , Svetlozar Rachev , Rui Wang

In this paper, we consider the infinite horizon optimal control problem for nonlinear systems. Under the conditions of controllability of the linearized system around the origin, and nonlinear controllability of the system to a terminal set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed , Raman Goyal , Suman Chakravorty

The paper addresses an existence problem for infinite horizon optimal control when the system under control is exponentially stabilizable or stable. Classes of nonlinear control systems for which infinite horizon optimal controls exist are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Noboru Sakamoto

Turnpike properties have been established long time ago in finite-dimensional optimal control problems arising in econometry. They refer to the fact that, under quite general assumptions, the optimal solutions of a given optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Emmanuel Trélat , Enrique Zuazua

In this work, we study the steady-state (or periodic) exponential turnpike property of optimal control problems in Hilbert spaces. The turnpike property, which is essentially due to the hyperbolic feature of the Hamiltonian system resulting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Emmanuel Trelat , Can Zhang , Enrique Zuazua

In this paper, we develop several necessary conditions of turnpike property for generalizaid linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem in infinite dimensional setting. The term 'generalized' here means that both quadratic and linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Roberto Guglielmi , Zhuqing Li

We study tracking-type optimal control problems that involve a non-affine, weak-to-weak continuous control-to-state mapping, a desired state $y_d$, and a desired control $u_d$. It is proved that such problems are always nonuniquely solvable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Constantin Christof , Dominik Hafemeyer

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