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In this paper, we consider a special class of nonlinear optimal control problems, where the control variables are box-constrained and the objective functional is strongly convex corresponding to control variables and separable with respect…
We propose a direct numerical method for the solution of an optimal control problem governed by a two-side space-fractional diffusion equation. The presented method contains two main steps. In the first step, the space variable is…
The paper is concerned with an optimal control problem on $\mathbb{R}^n$, where the dynamics is linear w.r.t.~the control functions. For a terminal cost $\psi$ in a $mathcal{G}_\delta$ set of $\mathcal{C}^4(\mathbb{R}^n)$ (i.e., in a…
We study a constrained stochastic control problem with jumps; the jump times of the controlled process are given by a Poisson process. The cost functional comprises quadratic components for an absolutely continuous control and the…
Optimal stopping is the problem of deciding when to stop a stochastic system to obtain the greatest reward, arising in numerous application areas such as finance, healthcare and marketing. State-of-the-art methods for high-dimensional…
Traditional mathematical programming solvers require long computational times to solve constrained minimization problems of complex and large-scale physical systems. Therefore, these problems are often transformed into unconstrained ones,…
This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. The proposed procedure has several features which distinguishes it from the other procedures for the problem. First of all a sliding…
We present a novel particle filtering framework for continuous-time dynamical systems with continuous-time measurements. Our approach is based on the duality between estimation and optimal control, which allows reformulating the estimation…
We study a constrained optimal control problem with possibly degenerate coefficients arising in models of optimal portfolio liquidation under market impact. The coefficients can be random in which case the value function is described by a…
In this paper we consider the problem of the optimal control of an ensemble of affine-control systems. After proving the well-posedness of the minimization problem under examination, we establish a $\Gamma$-convergence result that allows us…
We investigate the joint actuator-sensor design problem for stochastic linear control systems. Specifically, we address the problem of identifying a pair of sensor and actuator which gives rise to the minimum expected value of a quadratic…
The canonical proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control approach has been widely used in industrial application due to their simplicity and ease of use. However, its corresponding controller parameters are hard to be adjusted,…
Optimality conditions in the form of a variational inequality are proved for a class of constrained optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. The cost function and the inequality constraints are functions of the…
In this contribution, we introduce an efficient method for solving the optimal control problem for an unconstrained nonlinear switched system with an arbitrary cost function. We assume that the sequence of the switching modes are given but…
We use moment-SOS (Sum Of Squares) relaxations to address the optimal control problem of the 1D heat equation perturbed with a nonlinear term. We extend the current framework of moment-based optimal control of PDEs to consider a quadratic…
In this paper, we present ReaS, a technique that combines numerical optimization with SAT solving to synthesize unknowns in a program that involves discrete and floating point computation. ReaS makes the program end-to-end differentiable by…
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction technique in machine learning and multivariate statistics. To improve the interpretability of PCA, various approaches to obtain sparse principal direction loadings have…
We consider a nonlinear optimal control problem governed by a nonlinear evolution inclusion and depending on a parameter $\lambda$. First we examine the dynamics of the problem and establish the nonemptiness of the solution set and produce…
Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…
In the context of optimal control, we consider the inverse problem of Lagrangian identification given system dynamics and optimal trajectories. Many of its theoretical and practical aspects are still open. Potential applications are very…