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We study a time-optimal control problem of a two-peakon collision. First, we state the controllability. Next, we find the time-optimal strategy. This is done via the HamiltonJacobi-Bellman equation and the dynamic programming method. We…

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We consider continuous-state and continuous-time control problems where the admissible trajectories of the system are constrained to remain on a union of half-planes which share a common straight line. This set will be named a junction. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Salomé Oudet

A gradient-enhanced functional tensor train cross approximation method for the resolution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations associated to optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamics is presented. The procedure uses samples…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Sergey Dolgov , Dante Kalise , Luca Saluzzi

In this manuscript, we study optimal control problems for stochastic delay differential equations using the dynamic programming approach in Hilbert spaces via viscosity solutions of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. We show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Filippo de Feo , Andrzej Święch

Full history recursive multilevel Picard (MLP) approximations have been proved to overcome the curse of dimensionality in the numerical approximation of semilinear heat equations with nonlinearities which are globally Lipschitz continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Martin Hutzenthaler , Tuan Anh Nguyen

An optimal control problem is considered for a stochastic differential equation containing a state-dependent regime switching, with a recursive cost functional. Due to the non-exponential discounting in the cost functional, the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Hongwei Mei , Jiongmin Yong

Stochastic optimal principle leads to the resolution of a partial differential equation (PDE), namely the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. In general, this equation cannot be solved analytically, thus numerical algorithms are the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Christelle Dleuna Nyoumbi , Antoine Tambue

We study an inverse problem of the stochastic optimal control of general diffusions with performance index having the quadratic penalty term of the control process. Under mild conditions on the system dynamics, the cost functions, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Yumiharu Nakano

Stochastic optimal control problems for Hamiltonian dynamics on graphs have wide-ranging applications in mechanics and quantum field theory, particularly in systems with graph-based structures. In this paper, we establish the existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Jianbo Cui , Tonghe Dang

In this paper we propose a new computational method for designing optimal regulators for high-dimensional nonlinear systems. The proposed approach leverages physics-informed machine learning to solve high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

A new framework for formulating reachability problems with competing inputs, nonlinear dynamics and state constraints as optimal control problems is developed. Such reach-avoid problems arise in, among others, the study of safety problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-25 Kostas Margellos , John Lygeros

We present a new formulation for the computation of solutions of a class of Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equations on closed smooth surfaces of co-dimension one. For the class of equations considered in this paper, the viscosity solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Lindsay Martin , Richard Tsai

In this paper, a finite-horizon optimal control problem involving a dynamical system described by a linear Caputo fractional differential equation and a quadratic cost functional is considered. An explicit formula for the value functional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Mikhail I. Gomoyunov

In this paper we study a first extension of the theory of mild solutions for HJB equations in Hilbert spaces to the case when the domain is not the whole space. More precisely, we consider a half-space as domain, and a semilinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Alessandro Calvia , Gianluca Cappa , Fausto Gozzi , Enrico Priola

Dynamical systems can be used to model a broad class of physical processes, and conservation laws give rise to system properties like passivity or port-Hamiltonian structure. An important problem in practical applications is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Tobias Breiten , Attila Karsai

This paper presents the optimal control and synchronization problem of a multilevel network of R\"ossler chaotic oscillators. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) technique, the optimal control law with three-state variables feedback is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Thierry Njougouo , Victor Camargo , Patrick Louodop , Fernando F Ferreira , Pierre K. Talla , Hilda A. Cerdeira

This paper is devoted to developing a unified framework for stochastic growth models with environmental risk, in which rare but catastrophic shocks interact with capital accumulation and pollution. The analysis is based upon a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Daria Sakhanda , Joshué Helí Ricalde-Guerrero

This paper presents a mathematical formulation to perform temporal parallelisation of continuous-time optimal control problems, which can be solved via the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation. We divide the time interval of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Simo Särkkä , Ángel F. García-Fernández

This paper introduces a notion of viscosity solutions for second order elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations with infinite delay associated with infinite-horizon optimal control problems for stochastic differential equations with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Jianjun Zhou

A standard way of finding a feedback law that stabilizes a control system to an operating point is to recast the problem as an infinite horizon optimal control problem. If the optimal cost and the optmal feedback can be found on a large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Arthur J. Krener