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In this work we recast parametrized time dependent optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations in a saddle point formulation and we propose reduced order methods as an effective strategy to solve them. Indeed, on one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza

We consider a continuous time stochastic optimal control problem under both equality and inequality constraints on the expectation of some functionals of the controlled process. Under a qualification condition, we show that the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Laurent Pfeiffer , Xiaolu Tan , Yulong Zhou

The paper is devoted to the optimal control of a system with two time-scales, in a regime when the limit equation is not of averaging type but, in the spirit of Wong-Zakai principle, it is a stochastic differential equation for the slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Franco Flandoli , Giuseppina Guatteri , Umberto Pappalettera , Gianmario Tessitore

In this paper we present a dynamic programing approach to stochastic optimal control problems with dynamic, time-consistent risk constraints. Constrained stochastic optimal control problems, which naturally arise when one has to consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Yin-Lam Chow , Marco Pavone

Correlated with the trend of increasing degrees of freedom in robotic systems is a similar trend of rising interest in Spatio-Temporal systems described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) among the robotics and control communities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ethan N. Evans , Andrew P. Kendall , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this work, we propose to efficiently solve time dependent parametrized optimal control problems governed by parabolic partial differential equations through the certified reduced basis method. In particular, we will exploit an error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Maria Strazzullo , Francesco Ballarin , Gianluigi Rozza

We consider the problem of designing a feedback controller that guides the input and output of a linear time-invariant system to a minimizer of a convex optimization problem. The system is subject to an unknown disturbance that determines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Liam S. P. Lawrence , Zachary E. Nelson , Enrique Mallada , John W. Simpson-Porco

In this paper, an efficient parallel splitting method is proposed for the optimal control problem with parabolic equation constraints. The linear finite element is used to approximate the state variable and the control variable in spatial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Haiming Song , Jiachuan Zhang , Yongle Hao

Finite element methods provide accurate and efficient methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations by means of restricting variational problems to finite-dimensional approximating spaces. However, they do not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Robert C. Kirby , John D. Stephens

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

We consider space-time tracking type distributed optimal control problems for the wave equation in the space-time domain $Q:= \Omega \times (0,T) \subset {\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$, where the control is assumed to be in the energy space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach

A scheme for generating a family of convex variational principles is developed, the Euler- Lagrange equations of each member of the family formally corresponding to the necessary conditions of optimal control of a given system of ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Amit Acharya , Janusz Ginster

We consider a stabilized finite element method based on a spacetime formulation, where the equations are solved on a global (unstructured) spacetime mesh. A unique continuation problem for the wave equation is considered, where data is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Erik Burman , Ali Feizmohammadi , Arnaud Munch , Lauri Oksanen

We consider an optimal control problem subject to the thin-film equation which is deduced from the Navier--Stokes equation. The PDE constraint lacks well-posedness for general right-hand sides due to possible degeneracies; state constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Markus Klein , Andreas Prohl

We consider the control problem of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations in multidimensional domains introduced in \cite{ocpc} restricted to noise terms defined by Q-Wiener processes. Using a stochastic maximum principle, we derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Peter Benner , Christoph Trautwein

This paper studies the well-posedness of a class of nonlocal parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs), or equivalently equilibrium Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, which has a strong tie with the characterization of the equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Qian Lei , Chi Seng Pun

This paper is concerned with a boundary control problem for the Cahn--Hilliard equation coupled with dynamic boundary conditions. In order to handle the control problem, we restrict our analysis to the case of regular potentials defined on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori

In this paper, we consider the 3D Navier-Stokes-Voigt (NSV) equations with nonlinear damping $|u|^{r-1}u, r\in[1,\infty)$ in bounded and space-periodic domains. We formulate an optimal control problem of minimizing the curl of the velocity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Sakthivel Kumarasamy

We consider the optimal control problem of a general nonlinear spatio-temporal system described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Theory and algorithms for control of spatio-temporal systems are of rising interest among the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Ethan N. Evans , Oswin So , Andrew P. Kendall , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We devise a space-time tensor method for the low-rank approximation of linear parabolic evolution equations. The proposed method is a stable Galerkin method, uniformly in the discretization parameters, based on a Minimal Residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Thomas Boiveau , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern , Anthony Nouy