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Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an optimal control algorithm with strong stability and robustness guarantees. Despite its popularity in robotics and industrial applications, the main challenge in deploying MPC is its high computation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Camilo Gonzalez , Houshyar Asadi , Lars Kooijman , Chee Peng Lim

A promising approach to optimal control of nonlinear systems involves iteratively linearizing the system and solving an optimization problem at each time instant to determine the optimal control input. Since this approach relies on online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Stochastic control problems in high dimensions are notoriously difficult to solve due to the curse of dimensionality. An alternative to traditional dynamic programming is Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (PMP), which recasts the problem as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Qian Qi

We propose a neural network approach to model general interaction dynamics and an adjoint based stochastic gradient descent algorithm to calibrate its parameters. The parameter calibration problem is considered as optimal control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Simone Göttlich , Claudia Totzeck

Without exact knowledge of the true system dynamics, optimal control of non-linear continuous-time systems requires careful treatment under epistemic uncertainty. In this work, we translate a probabilistic interpretation of the Pontryagin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 David Leeftink , Çağatay Yıldız , Steffen Ridderbusch , Max Hinne , Marcel van Gerven

In this paper, we present a novel reinforcement learning framework designed to optimize molecular dynamics by focusing on the entire trajectory rather than just the final molecular configuration. Leveraging a stochastic version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Chandrajit Bajaj , Minh Nguyen , Conrad Li

This paper proposes an integrated quantum-classical approach that merges quantum computational dynamics with classical computing methodologies tailored to address control problems based on Pontryagin's minimum principle within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani , A. Pedro Aguiar , Rafal Wisniewski

This paper develops a Pontryagin Differentiable Programming (PDP) methodology, which establishes a unified framework to solve a broad class of learning and control tasks. The PDP distinguishes from existing methods by two novel techniques:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Wanxin Jin , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Shaoshuai Mou

A fundamental problem in science and engineering is designing optimal control policies that steer a given system towards a desired outcome. This work proposes Control Physics-Informed Neural Networks (Control PINNs) that simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Jostein Barry-Straume , Arash Sarshar , Andrey A. Popov , Adrian Sandu

In this paper, we derive first-order Pontryagin optimality conditions for risk-averse stochastic optimal control problems subject to final time inequality constraints, and whose costs are general, possibly non-smooth finite coherent risk…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Riccardo Bonalli , Benoît Bonnet

This paper first introduces a method to approximate the value function of high-dimensional optimal control by neural networks. Based on the established relationship between Pontryagin's maximum principle (PMP) and the value function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mouhcine Assouli , Justina Gianatti , Badr Missaoui , Francisco J. Silva

We study the selective and robust time-optimal rotation control of several spin-1/2 particles with different offset terms. For that purpose, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle is applied to a model of two spins, which is simple enough for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Quentin Ansel , Steffen J. Glaser , Dominique Sugny

Based on Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP), this paper established a generalized PMP aiming at non-feedback control system with stochastic initial conditions. We proved the conclusion and show its coming back to PMP when the randomness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Yuanzun Zhao

We consider distributed-order non-local fractional optimal control problems with controls taking values on a closed set and prove a strong necessary optimality condition of Pontryagin type. The possibility that admissible controls are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Faical Ndairou , Delfim F. M. Torres

Optimal actuator and control design is studied as a multi-level optimisation problem, where the actuator design is evaluated based on the performance of the associated optimal closed loop. The evaluation of the optimal closed loop for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Dante Kalise , Estefanía Loayza-Romero , Kirsten A. Morris , Zhengang Zhong

In this paper, we discuss a new general formulation of fractional optimal control problems whose performance index is in the fractional integral form and the dynamics are given by a set of fractional differential equations in the Caputo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-24 H. M. Ali , F. Lobo Pereira , S. M. A. Gama

Safety filters provide a practical approach for enforcing safety constraints in autonomous systems. While learning-based tools scale to high-dimensional systems, their performance depends on informative data that includes states likely to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 James Dallas , Thomas Lew , John Talbot , Jonathan DeCastro , Somil Bansal , John Subosits

In this paper, a model of a pair of Dubins vehicles is considered. The vehicles move from an initial position and orientation to final position and orientation. A long the motion, the two vehicles are not allowed to collide however the two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2008-05-01 Heru Tjahjana , Iwan Pranoto , Hari Muhammad , J. Naiborhu , Miswanto

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently become a popular method for solving forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). By incorporating the residual of the PDE into the loss function of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Saviz Mowlavi , Saleh Nabi

We derive first-order Pontryagin optimality conditions for stochastic optimal control with deterministic controls for systems modeled by rough differential equations (RDE) driven by Gaussian rough paths. This Pontryagin Maximum Principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Thomas Lew