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Given two points in the plane, and a set of "obstacles" given as curves through the plane with assigned weights, we consider the point-separation problem, which asks for the minimum-weight subset of the obstacles separating the two points.…

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This paper offers a contemporary and comprehensive perspective on the classical algorithms utilized for the solution of minimum-time problem for linear systems (MTPLS). The use of unified notations supported by visual geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 M E Buzikov , A M Mayer

Inspired by the recent 11th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, this paper presents the asteroid routing problem (ARP) as a realistic benchmark of algorithms for expensive bound-constrained black-box optimization in permutation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Manuel López-Ibáñez , Francisco Chicano , Rodrigo Gil-Merino

Space and time discretizations of parabolic differential equations with dynamic boundary conditions are studied in a weak formulation that fits into the standard abstract formulation of parabolic problems, just that the usual L^2(\Omega)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

Our idea is to imitate Smale's list of problems, in a restricted domain of mathematical aspects of Celestial Mechanics. All the problems are on the n-body problem, some with different homogeneity of the potential, addressing many aspects…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Alain Albouy , Hildeberto E. Cabral , Alan A. Santos

We study the existing algorithms that solve the multidimensional martingale optimal transport. Then we provide a new algorithm based on entropic regularization and Newton's method. Then we provide theoretical convergence rate results and we…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Hadrien De March

As the number of uncontrollable objects in low earth orbit is rising, the thread of collisions and thus the breakdown of working satellites becomes worth analyzing. Consequently, projects on removing objects from the important orbits are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Johannes Michael , Kurt Chudej , Matthias Gerdts , Jürgen Pannek

This work presents a novel algorithm for impulsive optimal control of linear time-varying systems with the inclusion of input magnitude constraints. Impulsive optimal control problems, where the optimal input solution is a sum of delta…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ethan Foss , Simone D'Amico

In this paper, the time- and propellant-optimal low-thrust rephasing problems in circular orbit are studied to depict their solution spaces in an atlas. The number of key parameters that settle the rephasing problems is reduced by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Di Wu , Fanghua Jiang , Hexi Baoyin

In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solutions of the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the following elliptic system: \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta u & = au + bv + f(x,u,v); &\quad\mbox{ for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Leandro Recôva , Adolfo Rumbos

We study the Robe's restricted three-body problem. Such a motion was firstly studied by A. G. Robe in \cite{Robe}, which is used to model small oscillations of the earth's inner core taking into account the moon attraction. For the linear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Qinglong Zhou , Yongchao Zhang

We discuss the influence of the cosmological constant on the gravitational equations of motion of bodies with arbitrary masses and eventually solve the two-body problem. Observational constraints are derived from measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ph. Jetzer , M. Sereno

This paper proposes a solution for multiple-impulse orbital maneuvers near circular orbits for special cases where orbital observations are not globally available and the spacecraft is being observed through a limited window from a ground…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Amir Shakouri , Seid H. Pourtakdoust , Mohammad Sayanjali

A new approach to solving two-point boundary value problems for a wave equation is developed. This new approach exploits the principle of stationary action to reformulate and solve such problems in the framework of optimal control. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Peter M. Dower , William M. McEneaney

A pure two-body problem has seven integrals including the Kepler energy, the Laplace vector, and the angular momentum vector. However, only five of them are independent. When the five independent integrals are preserved, the two other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Yue Chen , Da-Zhu Ma , Fang Xia

In the classical best approximation pair (BAP) problem, one is given two nonempty, closed, convex and disjoint subsets in a finite- or an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, and the goal is to find a pair of points, each from each subset,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Daniel Reem , Yair Censor

We develop numerical algorithms to approximate positive solutions of elliptic boundary value problems with superlinear subcritical nonlinearity on the boundary of the form $-\Delta u + u = 0$ in $\Omega$ with $\frac{\partial u}{\partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Shalmali Bandyopadhyay , Thomas Lewis , Dustin Nichols

In this paper, we employ a space-time finite element method to discretize the parabolic initial-boundary value problem and extend its error analysis with refined estimates on unstructured space-time meshes. We establish higher-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Thi Thanh Mai Ta , Quang Huy Nguyen , Phi Hung Pham

We present a unified approach for constraint displacement problems in which a robot finds a feasible path by displacing constraints or obstacles. To this end, we propose a two stage process that returns locally optimal obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

In an earlier paper (https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1393315), the Switch Point Algorithm was developed for solving optimal control problems whose solutions are either singular or bang-bang or both singular and bang-bang, and which possess a…

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