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We study an optimal control problem for the stochastic wave equation driven by affine multiplicative noise, formulated as a stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ) problem. By applying a stochastic Pontryagin's maximum principle, we characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Abhishek Chaudhary

In this paper we establish several results on approximate controllability of a semilinear wave equation by making use of a single multiplicative control. These results are then applied to discuss the exact controllability properties for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Mohamed Ouzahra

In this article we study optimal control problems for systems that are affine with respect to some of the control variables and nonlinear in relation to the others. We consider finitely many equality and inequality constraints on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 M. Soledad Aronna

We consider a control-constrained optimal control problem subject to time-harmonic Maxwell's equations; the control variable belongs to a finite-dimensional set and enters the state equation as a coefficient. We derive existence of optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Francisco Fuica , Felipe Lepe , Pablo Venegas

The DPG method with optimal test functions for solving linear quadratic optimal control problems with control constraints is studied. We prove existence of a unique optimal solution of the nonlinear discrete problem and characterize it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Thomas Führer , Francisco Fuica

This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by nonsmooth semilinear elliptic partial differential equations with both distributed and boundary unilateral pointwise control constraints, in which the nonlinear coefficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Vu Huu Nhu , Nguyen Hai Son

The paper is devoted to deriving necessary optimality conditions in a general optimal control problem for dynamical systems governed by controlled sweeping processes with hard-constrained control actions entering both polyhedral moving sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Tan H. Cao , Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for parabolic partial differential equations with pointwise in time switching constraints on the control. A standard approach to treat constraints in nonlinear optimization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Christian Clason , Armin Rund , Karl Kunisch

In this paper error analysis for finite element discretizations of Dirichlet boundary control problems is developed. For the first time, optimal discretization error estimates are established in the case of three dimensional polyhedral and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Johannes Pfefferer , Boris Vexler

The scope of this paper is the analysis and approximation of an optimal control problem related to the Allen-Cahn equation. A tracking functional is minimized subject to the Allen-Cahn equation using distributed controls that satisfy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Konstantinos Chrysafinos , Dimitra Plaka

Converging hierarchies of finite-dimensional semi-definite relaxations have been proposed for state-constrained optimal control problems featuring oscillation phe-nomena, by relaxing controls as Young measures. These semi-definite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-20 Mathieu Claeys , Didier Henrion , Martin Kružík

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

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

We consider a class of parameter-dependent optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs with constraints of general type on the control variable. Applying the concept of variational discretization, [4], together with techniques from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Ahmad Ahmad Ali , Michael Hinze

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

This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Andrew Lamperski , Khem Raj Ghusinga , Abhyudai Singh

In this work, we will investigate the question of optimal control for bilinear systems with constrained endpoint. The optimal control will be characterized through a set of unconstrained minimization problems that approximate the former.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Soufiane Yahyaoui , Lahoussine Lafhim , Mohamed Ouzahra

We propose an {\em implementable} numerical scheme for the discretization of linear-quadratic optimal control problems involving SDEs in higher dimensions with {\em control constraint}. For time discretization, we employ the implicit Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Abhishek Chaudhary

This work is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by a non-smooth quasilinear elliptic equation with a nonlinear coefficient in the principal part that is locally Lipschitz continuous and directionally but not G\^ateaux…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Christian Clason , Vu Huu Nhu , Arnd Rösch