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This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

We investigate optimal control of linear port-Hamiltonian systems with control constraints, in which one aims to perform a state transition with minimal energy supply. Decomposing the state space into dissipative and non-dissipative (i.e.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Manuel Schaller , Friedrich Philipp , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann , Bernhard Maschke

Optimal control problems with symmetries often admit a non stationary turnpike property called trim turnpike, which characterizes the convergence of optimal solutions to certain symmetry induced trajectories called trim primitives. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Sofya Maslovskaya , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Boris Wembe

In this study, we propose a varying terminal time structure for the optimal control problem under state constraints, in which the terminal time follows the varying of the control via the constrained condition. Focusing on this new optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Shuzhen Yang

In recent papers it has been suggested that human locomotion may be modeled as an inverse optimal control problem. In this paradigm, the trajectories are assumed to be solutions of an optimal control problem that has to be determined. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Yacine Chitour , Frédéric Jean , Paolo Mason

An exponential turnpike property for a semilinear control problem is proved. The state-target is assumed to be small, whereas the initial datum can be arbitrary. Turnpike results are also obtained for large targets, requiring that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Dario Pighin

The concept of turnpike connects the solution of long but finite time horizon optimal control problems with steady state optimal controls. A key ingredient of the analysis of the turnpike is the linear quadratic regulator problem and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jan Heiland , Enrique Zuazua

An optimal control problem for semilinear parabolic partial differential equations is considered. The control variable appears in the leading term of the equation. Necessary conditions for optimal controls are established by the method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Hongwei Lou

The turnpike property refers to the phenomenon that in many optimal control problems, the solutions for different initial conditions and varying horizons approach a neighborhood of a specific steady state, then stay in this neighborhood for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Timm Faulwasser , Lars Grüne

Optimal processes in stochastic thermodynamics are a frontier for understanding the control and design of non-equilibrium systems, with broad practical applications in biology, chemistry, and nanoscale/mesoscale systems. Optimal mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-15 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

In this work we derive an interval turnpike result for adjoints of finite- and infinite-dimensional nonlinear optimal control problems under the assumption of an interval turnpike on states and controls. We consider stabilizable dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Timm Faulwasser , Lars Grüne , Jukka-Pekka Humaloja , Manuel Schaller

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we consider a linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem in both finite and infinite dimensions. We derive an asymptotic expansion of the value function as the fixed time horizon T tends to infinity. The leading term in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Veljko Askovic , Emmanuel Trélat , Hasnaa Zidani

This paper explores the controllability and state tracking of ensembles from the perspective of optimal transport theory. Ensembles, characterized as collections of systems evolving under the same dynamics but with varying initial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Reza Hadadi

In this paper the turnpike property is established for a non-convex optimal control problem in discrete time. The functional is defined by the notion of the ideal convergence and can be considered as an analogue of the terminal functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Musa Mammadov , Piotr Szuca

The paper deals with an optimal control problem in a dynamical system described by a linear differential equation with the Caputo fractional derivative. The goal of control is to minimize a Bolza-type cost functional, which consists of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Mikhail Gomoyunov

This work is concerned with a hierarchical framework of optimal control problems connecting interacting particle systems, the mean field limit equations, and associated hydrodynamic models. By assuming the existence of solutions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Michael Herty , Yizhou Zhou

We introduce discontinuous solutions to nonlinear impulsive control systems with state time delays in the dynamics and derive necessary optimality conditions in the form of a Maximum Principle for associated optimal control problems. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Giovanni Fusco , Monica Motta , Richard Vinter

This paper is devoted to the study of the turnpike phenomenon arising in the optimal distributed control tracking-type problem for the Navier-Stokes equations. We obtain a positive answer to this property in the case when the controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 S. Zamorano

In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Wei Gong , Dongdong Liang