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Stochastic proximal point methods have recently garnered renewed attention within the optimization community, primarily due to their desirable theoretical properties. Notably, these methods exhibit a convergence rate that is independent of…

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We present FilterDDP, a differential dynamic programming algorithm for solving discrete-time, optimal control problems (OCPs) with nonlinear equality constraints. Unlike prior methods based on merit functions or the augmented Lagrangian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Iman Shames

- We discuss the approximation of distributed null controls for partial differential equations. The main purpose is to determine an approximation of controls that drives the solution from a prescribed initial state at the initial time to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Arnaud Münch , Pablo Pedregal

A classical approach for solving discrete time nonlinear control on a finite horizon consists in repeatedly minimizing linear quadratic approximations of the original problem around current candidate solutions. While widely popular in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui

A least-squares neural network (LSNN) method was introduced for solving scalar linear and nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws (HCLs) in [7, 6]. This method is based on an equivalent least-squares (LS) formulation and uses ReLU neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Zhiqiang Cai , Jingshuang Chen , Min Liu

A discrete time control algorithm using the damped least squares is introduced for acceleration and energy exchange controls in nonlinear vibrating systems. It is shown that the damping constant of least squares and sampling time step of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-17 V. N. Pilipchuk

In this survey we present the near-optimal stochastic control problem according to some recent tools in the literature. In particular, we focus on the approach of a discretization of the noise values instead of the canonical…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Lourival Lima , Paulo Ruffino , Francys Souza

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for optimal control of systems governed by fractional backward stochastic evolution equations (FBSEEs) in Hilbert spaces. We first establish a stochastic maximum principle (SMP) as a necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Javad A. Asadzade , Nazim I. Mahmudov

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. First, a time discretization of the forward problem is derived using a discontinuous Galerkin formulation. Here, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

This paper details an approach to linearise differentiable but non-convex collision avoidance constraints tailored to convex shapes. It revisits introducing differential collision avoidance constraints for convex objects into an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Dries Dirckx , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

In this paper, we investigate a sparse optimal control of continuous-time stochastic systems. We adopt the dynamic programming approach and analyze the optimal control via the value function. Due to the non-smoothness of the $L^0$ cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Kaito Ito , Takuya Ikeda , Kenji Kashima

In this paper we present a finite element method for the direct transcription of constrained non-linear optimal control problems. We prove that our method converges of high order under mild assumptions. Our analysis uses a regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Martin Peter Neuenhofen

Though switched dynamical systems have shown great utility in modeling a variety of physical phenomena, the construction of an optimal control of such systems has proven difficult since it demands some type of optimal mode scheduling. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Ramanarayan Vasudevan , Humberto Gonzalez , Ruzena Bajcsy , S. Shankar Sastry

The paper considers the problem of constructing program control for an object described by a system with a quasidifferentiable right-hand side. The control aim is to bring the system from a given initial position to a given final state in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Alexander Fominyh

The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems governed by discontinuous constrained differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving the duration of the dynamic process into optimization. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

We study the relationship between disturbance decoupling (DD) and H2 optimal control for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, revealing a fundamental gap between DD subspace constraints and semi-definite program (SDP)-based H2 minimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Ruirui Ma , Sarah H. Q. Li

Optimal control is a popular approach to synthesize highly dynamic motion. Commonly, $L_2$ regularization is used on the control inputs in order to minimize energy used and to ensure smoothness of the control inputs. However, for some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Traiko Dinev , Wolfgang Merkt , Vladimir Ivan , Ioannis Havoutis , Sethu Vijayakumar

We consider a class of stochastic optimal control problems for discrete-time stochastic linear systems which seek for control policies that will steer the probability distribution of the terminal state of the system close to a desired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

We present a hierarchical computation approach for solving finite-time optimal control problems using operator splitting methods. The first split is performed over the time index and leads to as many subproblems as the length of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-09 Georgios Stathopoulos , Tamás Keviczky , Yang Wang

This paper deals with the development and analysis of novel time-optimal point-to-point model predictive control concepts for nonlinear systems. Recent approaches in the literature apply a time transformation, however, which do not maintain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Christoph Rösmann , Artemi Makarow , Torsten Bertram