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We investigate constrained optimal control problems for linear stochastic dynamical systems evolving in discrete time. We consider minimization of an expected value cost over a finite horizon. Hard constraints are introduced first, and then…

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In this article, we discuss two algorithms tailored to discrete-time deterministic finite-horizon nonlinear optimal control problems or so-called deterministic trajectory optimization problems. Both algorithms can be derived from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Mohammad Mahmoudi Filabadi , Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

The well-posedness of a class of optimal control problems is analysed, where the state equation couples a nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equation with a system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). Such problems naturally arise as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Francesca Anceschi , Giacomo Ascione , Daniele Castorina , Francesco Solombrino

When neural networks are used to model dynamics, properties such as stability of the dynamics are generally not guaranteed. In contrast, there is a recent method for learning the dynamics of autonomous systems that guarantees global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kenji Kashima , Ryota Yoshiuchi , Yu Kawano

This paper investigates a new class of homogeneous stochastic control problems with cone control constraints, extending the classical homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) framework to encompass nonlinear system dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic time-inconsistent linear-quadratic (LQ) control problems with control input constraints. These problems are investigated within the more general framework associated with random coefficients.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

The control of network-coupled nonlinear dynamical systems is an active area of research in the nonlinear science community. Coupled oscillator networks represent a particularly important family of nonlinear systems, with applications…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-03 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

In this paper we propose a new methodology for decision-making under uncertainty using recent advancements in the areas of nonlinear stochastic optimal control theory, applied mathematics, and machine learning. Grounded on the fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Marcus Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Ioannis Exarchos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The sensitivity to initial conditions and relaxation dynamics of two-dimensional maps are analyzed at the edge of chaos, along the lines of nonextensive statistical mechanics. We verify the dual nature of the entropic index for the Henon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto P. Borges , Ugur Tirnakli

The optimal control problem of stochastic systems is commonly solved via robust or scenario-based optimization methods, which are both challenging to scale to long optimization horizons. We cast the optimal control problem of a stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Etienne Buehrle , Christoph Stiller

Data-driven control strategies for dynamical systems with unknown parameters are popular in theory and applications. An essential problem is to prevent stochastic linear systems becoming destabilized, due to the uncertainty of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Ambuj Tewari , George Michailidis

We study the stability of receding horizon control for continuous-time non-linear stochastic differential equations. We illustrate the results with a simulation example in which we employ receding horizon control to design an investment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Fajin Wei , Andrea Lecchini-Visintini

In this paper, a non-autonomous stochastic logistic system is considered. An interesting result on the effect of stochastically perturbation for the dynamic behavior are obtained. That is, under certain conditions the stochastic system have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Hu Hongxiao

The stabilization of nonlinear systems under zero-state-detectability assumption or its analogues is considered. The proposed supervisory control provides a finite time practical stabilization of output and it is based on uniting local and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Denis Efimov , Alexander L. Fradkov

This paper presents a policy parameterization for learning-based control on nonlinear, partially-observed dynamical systems. The parameterization is based on a nonlinear version of the Youla parameterization and the recently proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Nicholas H. Barbara , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

We consider the tracking of geometric paths in output spaces of nonlinear systems subject to input and state constraints without pre-specified timing requirements. Such problems are commonly referred to as constrained output path-following…

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In this paper quotients of control systems which are generalizations of system reductions are used to study the stabilizability property of non-linear systems. Given a control system and its quotient we study under what conditions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Tinashe Chingozha , Otis T. Nyandoro , Anton van Wyk

Recent low-thrust space missions have highlighted the importance of designing trajectories that are robust against uncertainties. In its complete form, this process is formulated as a nonlinear constrained stochastic optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Naoya Ozaki , Stefano Campagnola , Ryu Funase

Traveling localized spots represent an important class of self-organized two-dimensional patterns in reaction-diffusion systems. We study open-loop control intended to guide a stable spot along a desired trajectory with desired velocity.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-09-21 Steffen Martens , Christopher Ryll , Jakob Löber , Fredi Tröltzsch , Harald Engel

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. E 57, p. 1550 (1998)] we demonstrated that the symmetries of the evolution equation and the target state have a profound effect on the selection of the admissible control parameters. In the present paper we…

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