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Solving parabolic optimal control problems can be inherently challenging in the field of science and engineering, especially with constraints on the nonsmooth distributed control. Motivated by the extensive applicability of the alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Haiming Song , Jinda Yang , Yuran Yang , Jianhua Yuan

This paper studies the structural controllability of a class of uncertain switched linear systems, where the parameters of subsystems state matrices are either unknown or zero. The structural controllability is a generalization of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Xiaomeng Liu , Hai Lin , Ben M. Chen

In this work, we investigate the small-time global controllability properties of a class of fourth-order nonlinear parabolic equations driven by a bilinear control posed on the one-dimensional torus. The controls depend only on time and act…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Subrata Majumdar , Debanjit Mondal

This paper considers the containment control problem for multi-agent systems with general linear dynamics and multiple leaders whose control inputs are possibly nonzero and time varying. Based on the relative states of neighboring agents, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan , Wei Ren , Gang Feng

We consider an optimal control problem on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2,$ governed by a parabolic convection--diffusion--reaction equation with pointwise control constraints. We follow the optimize--then--discretize approach,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Christos Pervolianakis

In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

Infinite-dimensional linear port-Hamiltonian systems on a one-dimensional spatial domain with full boundary control and without internal damping are studied. This class of systems includes models of beams and waves as well as the transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Birgit Jacob , Julia T. Kaiser

The paper describes a novel method of sampled-data in space (spatial variable) control of scalar semilinear systems of parabolic and hyperbolic type with unknown parameters and distributed disturbances. A finite set of sampled-data in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Igor Furtat , Pavel Gushchin

S. Hansen and E. Zuazua [SIAM J. Cont. Optim., 1995] studied the problem of exact controllability of two strings connected by a point mass with constant physical coefficients. In this paper we study the same problem with variable physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Jamel Ben Amara , Beldi Emna

This paper studies the approximate and null controllability for impulse controlled systems of heat equations coupled by a pair (A,B) of constant matrices. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for the approximate controllability,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Shulin Qin , Gengsheng Wang

We consider linear systems on a separable Hilbert space $H$, which are null controllable at some time $T_0>0$ under the action of a point or boundary control. Parabolic and hyperbolic control systems usually studied in applications are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Luciano Pandolfi , Enrico Priola , Jerzy Zabczyk

This work studies the stabilization for a periodic parabolic system under perturbations in the system conductivity. A perturbed system does not have any periodic solution in general. However, we will prove that the perturbed system can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Ling Lei

We study the question of bounded-input bounded-output (BIBO) stability of a class of 1-D hyperbolic boundary control systems, which, in particular, contains distributed port-Hamiltonian systems. Exploiting the particular structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Felix L. Schwenninger , Alexander A. Wierzba

This paper deals with the problem of internal null-controllability of a heat equation posed on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions and perturbed by a semilinear nonlocal term. We prove the small-time local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Kévin Le Balc'h

We investigate a distributed optimal control problem for a phase field model of Cahn-Hilliard type. The model describes two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of diffusion; it has been recently introduced by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Jürgen Sprekels

Diffusion models have recently gained significant attention in robotics due to their ability to generate multi-modal distributions of system states and behaviors. However, a key challenge remains: ensuring precise control over the generated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luobin Wang , Hongzhan Yu , Chenning Yu , Sicun Gao , Henrik Christensen

We study a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids coupling the Navier--Stokes system with a convective nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation in two dimensions of space. We apply recently proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Sergio Frigeri , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

We consider two degenerate heat equations with a nonlocal space term, studying, in particular, their null controllability property. To this aim, we first consider the associated nonhomogeneous degenerate heat equations: we study their well…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 B. Allal , G. Fragnelli , J. Salhi

This paper analyzes the stability of a reactiondiffusion equation coupled with a finite-dimensional controller through Dirichlet boundary input and Neumann boundary output. Going against the flow, we intend to propose numerical certificates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Mathieu Bajodek , Hugo Lhachemi , Giorgio Valmorbida

We study controllability issues for the 2D Euler and Navier-Stokes (NS) systems under periodic boundary conditions. These systems describe motion of homogeneous ideal or viscous incompressible fluid on a two-dimensional torus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Andrey Agrachev , Andrey Sarychev