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Trajectory guidance requires a leader robotic agent to assist a follower robotic agent to cooperatively reach the target destination. However, planning cooperation becomes difficult when the leader serves a family of different followers and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuhan Zhao , Quanyan Zhu

We study a control problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation. The control is a measure that acts as the kernel of a possibly nonlocal time delay term and the functional includes a non-differentiable term with the measure-norm of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos , Fredi Tröltzsch

The main objective of this paper is to study the hierarchical exact controllability for a parabolic equation with Hardy potential by Stackelberg-Nash strategy. In linear case, we employ Lax-Milgram theorem to prove the existence of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Haiyang Lin , Bo You

We study a continuous-time stochastic Stackelberg game in which a leader seeks to accomplish a primary objective while inferring a hidden parameter of a rational follower. The follower solves an entropy-regularized tracking problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Ruimeng Hu , Daniel Ralston , Xu Yang , Haosheng Zhou

In this article we study a controllability problem for a parabolic and a hyperbolic partial differential equations in which the control is the shape of the domain where the equation holds. The quantity to be controlled is the trace of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-07 Jonathan Touboul

In this paper, we study some controllability and observability problems for stochastic systems coupling fourth- and second-order parabolic equations. The main goal is to control both equations with only one controller localized on the drift…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Liliana Peralta

We consider systems of parabolic equations coupled in zero order terms in a star-like or a tree-like shape, with an internal control acting in only one of the equations. We obtain local exact controllability to the stationary solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Catalin-George Lefter , Elena-Alexandra Melnig

This paper extends our previous controllability results for a class of coupled linear parabolic systems with nonlocal interactions, motivated by applications in finance such as generalized Black--Scholes models. We establish local null…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Juan Limaco , Rafael Martins Lobosco , Luis P. Yapu

In this paper, we study the tracking controllability of a 1D parabolic type equation. Notably, with controls acting on the boundary, we seek to approximately control the solution of the equation on specific points of the domain. We prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Jone Apraiz , Jon Asier Bárcena-Petisco , Judit Muñoz-Matute

We study a Stackelberg strategy subject to the evolutionary linearized micropolar fluids equations in domains with moving boundaries, considering a Nash multi-objective equilibrium (non necessarily cooperative) for the "follower players"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Isaías Pereira de Jesus

Guided cooperation allows intelligent agents with heterogeneous capabilities to work together by following a leader-follower type of interaction. However, the associated control problem becomes challenging when the leader agent does not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Yuhan Zhao , Quanyan Zhu

In this paper, we apply the hierarchical strategy to a semilinear weakly degenerate parabolic equation involving a gradient term. We use the Stackelberg-Nash strategy with one leader which tries to drive the solution to zero and two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Landry Djomegne , Cyrille Kenne , René Dorville , Pascal Zongo

This paper deals with the hierarchical control of the anisotropic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions and drift terms. We use the Stackelberg-Nash strategy with one leader and two followers. To each fixed leader, we find a Nash…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Idriss Boutaayamou , Lahcen Maniar , Omar Oukdach

This paper investigates the optimal control problem for a class of parabolic equations where the diffusion coefficient is influenced by a control function acting nonlocally. Specifically, we consider the optimization of a cost functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Stefana-Lucia Anita , Luca Di Persio

In this paper, we study a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game problem in which a single leader and multiple followers are involved. We consider more practical formulation for partial information that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yichun Li , Yaozhong Hu , Jingtao Shi , Yueyang Zheng

This paper is concerned with the optimal control problem governed by a linear parabolic equation and subjected to box constraints on control variables. This type of problem has important applications in heating and cooling systems. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Hailing Wang , Changjun Yu , Di Wu

We consider a linear non-local heat equation in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where the non-locality is given by the presence of an integral kernel. Motivated by several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Umberto Biccari , Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Loic Louison , Abdennebi Omrane

We investigate the robust Stackelberg null controllability of a one-dimensional forward linear stochastic Kuramoto--Sivashinsky--Korteweg--de Vries (KS--KdV) equation. The control framework is formulated as a hierarchical Stackelberg game…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Abdellatif Elgrou , Omar Oukdach , Abdelaziz Rhandi

We provide a general approach to reformulating any continuous-time stochastic Stackelberg differential game under closed-loop strategies as a single-level optimisation problem with target constraints. More precisely, we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Camilo Hernández , Nicolás Hernández Santibáñez , Emma Hubert , Dylan Possamaï

This work studies the null controllability of a system of coupled parabolic PDEs. In particular, our work specializes to an important subclass of these control problems which are coupled by first and zero-order couplings and are,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Drew Steeves , Bahman Gharesifard , Abdol-Reza Mansouri