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In this paper, we consider the finite element approximation to a parabolic Dirichlet boundary control problem and establish new a priori error estimates. In the temporal semi-discretization we apply the DG(0) method for the state and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Dongdong Liang , Wei Gong , Xiaoping Xie

This work is concerned with a switching point optimization problem governed by a semilinear parabolic equation in abstract function spaces. It is shown that the switching-point-to-control mapping is continuously Fr\'echet-differentiable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Christoph Buchheim , Christian Meyer , Alimhan Musalatov

In this paper we consider a problem of initial data identification from the final time observation for homogeneous parabolic problems. It is well-known that such problems are exponentially ill-posed due to the strong smoothing property of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler , Daniel Walter

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shahed Rezaei , Reza Najian Asl , Kianoosh Taghikhani , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

This paper aims to investigate a full numerical approximation of non-autonomous semilnear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with nonsmooth initial data. Our main interest is on such PDEs where the nonlinear part is stronger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam

Differential flatness serves as a powerful tool for controlling continuous time nonlinear systems in problems such as motion planning and trajectory tracking. A similar notion, called difference flatness, exists for discrete-time systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Ashutosh Jindal , Florentina Nicolau , David Martin Diego , Ravi Banavar

A PDE-based control concept is developed to deploy a multi-agent system into desired formation profiles. The dynamic model is based on a coupled linear, time-variant parabolic distributed parameter system. By means of a particular coupling…

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We consider an optimal control problem governed by a one-dimensional elliptic equation that involves univariate functions of bounded variation as controls. For the discretization of the state equation we use linear finite elements and for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Dominik Hafemeyer , Florian Mannel , Ira Neitzel , Boris Vexler

These notes are issued from a short course given by the author in a summer school in Chamb{\'e}ry in June 2015. We consider general semilinear PDE's and we address the following two questions: 1) How to design an efficient feedback control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Emmanuel Trélat

This work presents and analyzes space-time finite element methods on fully unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic optimal control problems. Using Babu\v{s}ka's theorem, we show well-posedness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Fredi Tröltzsch , Huidong Yang

We study sparse solutions of optimal control problems governed by PDEs with uncertain coefficients. We propose two formulations, one where the solution is a deterministic control optimizing the mean objective, and a formulation aiming at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chen Li , Georg Stadler

Ordinary Differential Equations are a simple but powerful framework for modeling complex systems. Parameter estimation from times series can be done by Nonlinear Least Squares (or other classical approaches), but this can give…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-29 Quentin Clairon , Nicolas Brunel

Integrated task and motion planning problems describe a multi-modal state space, which is often abstracted as a set of smooth manifolds that are connected via sets of transitions states. One approach to solving such problems is to sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Rahul Shome , Daniel Nakhimovich , Kostas E. Bekris

Reconstructing PDE solutions from sparse observations is a core challenge in scientific computing. We present FM4PDE, a flow-matching generative framework that learns the joint distribution of PDE coefficients (or initial states) and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xifeng Zhang , Jin Zhao

In this paper we consider a parabolic optimal control problem with a Dirac type control with moving point source in two space dimensions. We discretize the problem with piecewise constant functions in time and continuous piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dmitriy Leykekhman , Boris Vexler

We study stochastic motion planning problems which involve a controlled process, with possibly discontinuous sample paths, visiting certain subsets of the state-space while avoiding others in a sequential fashion. For this purpose, we first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

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

We consider locally stabilized, conforming finite element schemes on completely unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic initial-boundary value problems with variable, possibly discontinuous in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Ulrich Langer , Andreas Schafelner

We consider linear model reduction in both the control and state variables for unconstrained linear-quadratic optimal control problems subject to time-varying parabolic PDEs. The first-order optimality condition for a state-space reduced…

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