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We deal with optimal approximation of solutions of ODEs under local Lipschitz condition and inexact discrete information about the right-hand side functions. We show that the randomized two-stage Runge-Kutta scheme is the optimal method…
We develop aspects of geometric control theory on Lie groups G which may be infinite dimensional, and on smooth G-manifolds M modelled on locally convex spaces. As a tool, we discuss existence and uniqueness questions for differential…
We discuss first order optimality conditions for geometric optimization problems with Neumann boundary conditions and boundary observation. The methods we develop here are applicable to large classes of state systems or cost functionals.…
Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL) regularization is widely used in reinforcement learning, but it becomes infinite under support mismatch and can degenerate in low-noise limits. Utilizing a unified information-geometric framework, we…
This paper studies the reduction by symmetry of variational problems on Lie groups and Riemannian homogeneous spaces. We derive the reduced equations of motion in the case of Lie groups endowed with a left-invariant metric, and on Lie…
We present a general framework for constructing structure-preserving numerical integrators for nonholonomically constrained mechanical systems evolving on Lie groups using retraction maps. Retraction maps generalize the exponential map and…
Many problems in robotics require reasoning over a mix of continuous dynamics and discrete events, such as making and breaking contact in manipulation and locomotion. These problems are locally well modeled by linear complementarity…
This paper presents a new canonical duality methodology for solving general nonlinear dynamical systems. Instead of the conventional iterative methods, the discretized nonlinear system is first formulated as a global optimization problem…
Many methods for reducing and simplifying differential equations are known. They provide various generalizations of the original symmetry approach of Sophus Lie. Plenty of relations between them have been noticed and in this note a unifying…
Lie's linearizability criteria for scalar second-order ordinary differential equations had been extended to systems of second-order ordinary differential equations by using geometric methods. These methods not only yield the linearizing…
Discrete control systems, as considered here, refer to the control theory of discrete-time Lagrangian or Hamiltonian systems. These discrete-time models are based on a discrete variational principle, and are part of the broader field of…
If one has to attain high accuracy over long timescales during the numerical computation of the N-body problem, the method called Lie-integration is one of the most effective algorithms. In this paper we present a set of recurrence…
The purpose of this paper is describe Lagrangian Mechanics for constrained systems on Lie algebroids, a natural framework which covers a wide range of situations (systems on Lie groups, quotients by the action of a Lie group, standard…
We geometrically describe optimal control problems in terms of Morse families in the Hamiltonian framework. These geometric structures allow us to recover the classical first order necessary conditions for optimality and the starting point…
A numerical algorithm to obtain the consistent conditions satisfied by singular arcs for singular linear-quadratic optimal control problems is presented. The algorithm is based on the presymplectic constraint algorithm (PCA) by Gotay-Nester…
Mechanical control systems such as aerial, marine, space, and terrestrial robots often naturally admit a state-space that has the structure of a Lie group. The kinetic energy of such systems is commonly invariant to the induced action by…
Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) is widely adopted in large language models (LLMs) due to its efficient encoding of relative positions with strong extrapolation capabilities. However, while its application in higher-dimensional input…
This paper deals with the problem of output regulation for systems defined on matrix Lie-Groups. Reference trajectories to be tracked are supposed to be generated by an exosystem, defined on the same Lie-Group of the controlled system, and…
A semi-implicit-explicit (semi-IMEX) Runge-Kutta (RK) method is proposed for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of the form $\mathbf{u}' = \mathbf{f}(t,\mathbf{u}) + G(t,\mathbf{u}) \mathbf{u}$, where…
This work proposes an efficient treatment of continuous-time optimal control problem (OCP) with long horizons and nonlinear least-squares costs. The Gauss-Newton Runge-Kutta (GNRK) integrator is presented which provides a high-order cost…