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In this paper we consider a nonlinear system of PDEs coupling the viscous Cahn-Hilliard-Oono equation with dynamic boundary conditions enjoying a similar structure on the boundary. After proving well-posedness of the corresponding initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Gianni Gilardi , Elisabetta Rocca , Andrea Signori

We study linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems with bilinear state dependence for which the underlying stochastic differential equation (SDE) consists of slow and fast degrees of freedom. We show that, in the same way in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Omar Kebiri , Lara Neureither , Carsten Hartmann

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation with the cost functional determined by a backward stochastic Volterra integral equation (BSVIE, for short). This kind of cost functional can cover the general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

The study is devoted to mathematical modeling and optimal control design of longitudinal motions of a rectilinear elastic rod. The control inputs are a force, which is normal to the cross section and distributed piecewise constantly along…

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An analysis of the motion of a relativistic electron under a linear constraint in four dimensions is presented. Interesting results are given that show that the state of the electron is well defined under the formalism of time optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Peter G. Morrison

Kernel embeddings of distributions have recently gained significant attention in the machine learning community as a data-driven technique for representing probability distributions. Broadly, these techniques enable efficient computation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Adam J. Thorpe , Meeko M. K. Oishi

Finite element approximations of Dirichlet boundary control problems governed by parabolic PDEs on convex polygonal domains are studied in this paper. The existence of a unique solution to optimal control problems is guaranteed based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Wei Gong , Michael Hinze , Zhaojie Zhou

In this note, we consider the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a time-dependent optimal control problem constrained by a partial differential equation with uncertain inputs. Relying on the Lions' Lemma for deterministic problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Peter Benner , Akwum Onwunta , Martin Stoll

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We consider a parabolic optimal control problem with an initial measure control. The cost functional consists of a tracking term corresponding to the observation of the state at final time. Instead of a regularization term in the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Evelyn Herberg , Michael Hinze

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem subject to the $H^1$-critical defocusing semilinear wave equation on a smooth and bounded domain in three spatial dimensions. Due to the criticality of the nonlinearity in the wave…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Karl Kunisch , Hannes Meinlschmidt

This paper addresses the optimal control problem of finite-horizon discrete-time nonlinear systems under state and control constraints. A novel numerical algorithm based on optimal control theory is proposed to achieve superior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Chuanzhi Lv , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

We derive existence results and first order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems governed by quasilinear parabolic PDEs with a class of first order nonlinearities that include for instance quadratic gradient terms.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Lucas Bonifacius , Fabian Hoppe , Hannes Meinlschmidt , Ira Neitzel

An optimal control problem for the linear wave equation with control cost chosen as the BV semi-norm in time is analyzed. This formulation enhances piecewise constant optimal controls and penalizes the number of jumps. Existence of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Sebastian Engel , Karl Kunisch

The paper treats the problem of optimal distributed control of a Cahn-Hilliard-Oono system in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $1\leq d\leq 3$, with the control located in the mass term and admitting general potentials that include both the case of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper focuses on optimal control problem for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. In practical applications, computation time is a crucial consideration when solving nonlinear optimal control problems, especially under real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Chuanzhi Lv , Xunmin Yin , Hongdan Li , Huanshui Zhang

This paper studies an optimal control problem for continuous-time stochastic systems subject to reachability objectives specified in a subclass of metric interval temporal logic specifications, a temporal logic with real-time constraints.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

This paper firstly presents the necessary and sufficient conditions for a kind of discrete-time robust stochastic optimal control problem with convex control domains. As it is an "inf sup problem", the classical variational method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Wei He

We introduce a new and efficient numerical method for multicriterion optimal control and single criterion optimal control under integral constraints. The approach is based on extending the state space to include information on a "budget"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Ajeet Kumar , Alexander Vladimirsky

An optimal control for a dynamical system optimizes a certain objective function. Here we consider the construction of an optimal control for a stochastic dynamical system with a random structure, Poisson perturbations and random jumps,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Taras Lukashiv , Yuliia Litvinchuk , Igor Malyk , Anna Golebiewska , Petr V. Nazarov