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Optimal Control (OC) is the process of determining control and state trajectories for a dynamic system, over a period of time, in order to optimize a given performance index. With the increasing of variables and complexity, OC problems can…

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The aim of this paper is to provide a rigorous mathematical analysis of an optimal control problem with SIR dynamics. The main feature of our study is the presence of state constraints (related to intensive care units ICU capacity) and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Florin Avram , Lorenzo Freddi , Dan Goreac

Given a sequential learning algorithm and a target model, sequential machine teaching aims to find the shortest training sequence to drive the learning algorithm to the target model. We present the first principled way to find such shortest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Laurent Lessard , Xuezhou Zhang , Xiaojin Zhu

Here we derive a nonsmooth maximum principle for optimal control problems with both state and mixed constraints. Crucial to our development is a convexity assumption on the "velocity set". The approach consists of applying known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Md. Haider Ali Biswas , Maria do Rosario de Pinho

The paper presents new sufficient conditions for the property of strong bi-metric regularity of the optimality map associated with an optimal control problem which is affine with respect to the control variable ({\em affine problem}). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Marc Quincampoix , Vladimir Veliov

The paper addresses a new class of optimal control problems governed by the dissipative and discontinuous differential inclusion of the sweeping/Moreau process while using controls to determine the best shape of moving convex polyhedra in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Giovanni Colombo , René Henrion , Nguyen Dinh Hoang , Boris S. Mordukhovich

Limited bandwidth and limited saturation in actuators are practical concerns in control systems. Mathematically, these limitations manifest as constraints being imposed on the control actions, their rates of change, and more generally, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Siddhartha Ganguly , Souvik Das , Debasish Chatterjee , Ravi Banavar

In this letter, we present a constraint-driven optimal control framework that achieves emergent cluster flocking within a constrained 2D environment. We formulate a decentralized optimal control problem that includes safety, flocking, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

In this work, we consider optimal control problems for mechanical systems on vector spaces with fixed initial and free final state and a quadratic Lagrange term. Specifically, the dynamics is described by a second order ODE containing an…

In this paper, the study of nonsmooth optimal control problems (P) involving a controlled sweeping process with three main characteristics is launched. First, the sweeping sets are nonsmooth, time-dependent, and uniformly prox-regular.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Samara Chamoun , Vera Zeidan

In many resource-limited optimal control problems, multiple constraints may be enforced that are jointly infeasible due to external factors such as subsystem failures, unexpected disturbances, or fuel limitations. In this manuscript, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Natalia Pavlasek , Sarah H. Q. Li , Behçet Açıkmeşe , Meeko Oishi , Claus Danielson

A general maximum principle is proved for optimal controls of abstract semilinear stochastic evolution equations. The control variable, as well as linear unbounded operators, acts in both drift and diffusion terms, and the control set need…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng

In this short communication, we first recall a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. This result was recently obtained in [L. Bourdin and E. Tr{\'e}lat ,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

The necessary conditions for an optimal control of a stochastic control problem with recursive utilities is investigated. The first order condition is the the well-known Pontryagin type maximum principle. When the optimal control satisfying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Yuchao Dong , Qingxin Meng

Controlling the shapes of surfaces provides a novel way to direct self-assembly of colloidal particles on those surfaces and may be useful for material design. This motivates the investigation of an optimal control problem for surface shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Harbir Antil , Shawn W. Walker

Optimal control of large particle systems with collective dynamics by few agents is a subject of high practical importance (e.g. in evacuation dynamics), but still limited mathematical basis. In particular the transition from discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Martin Burger , René Pinnau , Andreas Roth , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse

We consider an optimal control problem in which the state is governed by an unilateral obstacle problem (with obstacle from below) and restricted by a pointwise state constraint (from above). In the presence of control constraints, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Ira Neitzel , Gerd Wachsmuth

In this article we derive a strong version of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for general nonlinear optimal control problems on time scales in finite dimension. The final time can be fixed or not, and in the case of general boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

A dynamical system entrains to a periodic input if its state converges globally to an attractor with the same period. In particular, for a constant input the state converges to a unique equilibrium point for any initial condition. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 M. Ali Al-Radhawi , Michael Margaliot , Eduardo Sontag

In this paper we summarize our results in infinite horizon optimal control. We present optimality conditions for weak local minimizer in the framework of weighted functions. Moreover we formulate the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for strong…

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