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In this paper, motivated by the study of optimal control problems for infinite dimensional systems with endpoint state constraints, we introduce the notion of finite codimensional (exact/approximate) controllability. Some equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Xu Liu , Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

We study high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problems in which many agents cooperate to minimize a convex cost functional. We consider both the full-information problem, in which each agent observes the states of all other agents,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Joe Jackson , Daniel Lacker

An optimal control problem on finite-dimensional positive cones is stated. Under a critical assumption on the cone, the corresponding Bellman equation is satisfied by a linear function, which can be computed by convex optimization. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Richard Pates , Anders Rantzer

We present a formulation of an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional diffusion process governed by a Fokker-Planck equation to achieve a nonequilibrium steady state with a desired circulation while accelerating convergence toward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Norihisa Namura , Hiroya Nakao

In this work, we study an optimal boundary control problem for a Cahn - Hilliard -Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system in a two dimensional bounded domain. The CHNS system consists of a Navier-Stokes equation governing the fluid velocity field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Manika Bag , Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti

We consider an optimal control problem of diffusion equation with missing data governed by the fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on an arbitrary interaction domain disjoint from the domain of the state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-05 J-D. Djida , P. F. Soh , G. Mophou

This paper concerns a distributed optimal control problem for a tumor growth model of Cahn-Hilliard type including chemotaxis with possibly singular potentials, where the control and state variables are nonlinearly coupled. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Pierluigi Colli , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

Dynamic phenomena in social and biological sciences can often be modeled by employing reaction-diffusion equations. When addressing the control of these modes, from a mathematical viewpoint one of the main challenges is that, because of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Domènec Ruiz-Balet , Enrique Zuazua

We consider an optimal control problem governed by a rate-inde\-pendent system with non-convex energy. The state equation is approximated by means of viscous regularization w.r.t.\ to hierarchy of two different Hilbert spaces. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Merlin Andreia , Christian Meyer

This paper aims to study a family of deterministic optimal control problems in infinite dimensional spaces. The peculiar feature of such problems is the presence of a positivity state constraint, which often arises in economic applications.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Alessandro Calvia , Salvatore Federico , Fausto Gozzi

In this work, we study an optimal boundary control for the stochastic Allen Cahn Navier Stokes system. The governing system of nonlinear partial differential equations consists of the stochastic Navier Stokes equations with non homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 R. D. Ayissi , G. Deugoue , J. Ngandjou Zangue , T. Tachim Medjo

In this paper, we consider optimal control problems derived by stochastic systems with delay, where control domains are non-convex and the diffusion coefficients depend on control variables. By an estimate of the integral of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Qixia Zhang

The convective Brinkman-Forchheimer (CBF) equations describe the motion of incompressible viscous fluid through a rigid, homogeneous, isotropic, porous medium. In this work, we consider some distributed optimal control problems like total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Manil T. Mohan

A boundary control problem for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equations with possibly singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions is studied and first order necessary conditions for optimality are proved. Key words: Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems for nonsmooth dynamical systems governed by nonconvex discontinuous differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving variable time into optimization. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Tan H. Cao , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen , Nguyen N. Thieu

This paper considers the problem of designing time-dependent, real-time control policies for controllable nonlinear diffusion processes, with the goal of obtaining maximally-informative observations about parameters of interest. More…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-16 Giles Hooker , Kevin K. Lin , Bruce Rogers

A system of a parabolic partial differential equation coupled with ordinary differential inclusions that arises from a closed-loop control problem for a thermodynamic process governed by the Allen-Cahn diffusion reaction model is studied. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Grzegorz Dudziuk , Marek Niezgódka

We study a class of two-sided optimal control problems of general linear diffusions under a so-called Poisson constraint: the controlling is only allowed at the arrival times of an independent Poisson signal processes. We give a weak and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Harto Saarinen

We consider an optimal control problem for the steady-state Kirchhoff equation, a prototype for nonlocal partial differential equations, different from fractional powers of closed operators. Existence and uniqueness of solutions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Masoumeh Hashemi , Roland Herzog , Thomas M. Surowiec

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras