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In this paper, problems of optimal control are considered where in the objective function, in addition to the control cost there is a tracking term that measures the distance to a desired stationary state. The tracking term is given by some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Martin Gugat , Michael Schuster , Enrique Zuazua

We consider a risk-averse optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality (VI) subject to random inputs. By deriving KKT-type optimality conditions for a penalised and smoothed problem and studying convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Amal Alphonse , Caroline Geiersbach , Michael Hintermüller , Thomas M. Surowiec

In this paper we consider mean-field optimal control problems with selective action of the control, where the constraint is a continuity equation involving a non-local term and diffusion. First order optimality conditions are formally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Giacomo Albi , Marco Caliari , Elisa Calzola , Fabio Cassini

We study a family of optimal control problems under a set of controlled-loss constraints holding at different deterministic dates. The characterization of the associated value function by a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation usually calls for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Geraldine Bouveret , Athena Picarelli

In this paper we focus on the solution of online problems with time-varying, linear equality and inequality constraints. Our approach is to design a novel online algorithm by leveraging the tools of control theory. In particular, for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Umberto Casti , Nicola Bastianello , Ruggero Carli , Sandro Zampieri

We derive a framework to compute optimal controls for problems with states in the space of probability measures. Since many optimal control problems constrained by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) modelling interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Martin Burger , René Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse

A geometric setup for control theory is presented. The argument is developed through the study of the extremals of action functionals defined on piecewise differentiable curves, in the presence of differentiable non-holonomic constraints.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Enrico Massa , Danilo Bruno , Enrico Pagani

This paper studies a stochastic optimal control problem with state constraint, where the state equation is described by a controlled stochastic evolution equation with jumps in Hilbert Space and the control domain is assumed to be convex.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-27 Qingxin Meng , Qiuhong Shi , Maoning Tang

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

This work investigates the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering problem for discrete-time linear systems subject to both additive and multiplicative uncertainties as well as state and input chance constraints. In particular, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Jacob Knaup , Panagiotis Tsiotras

H-infinity optimal control and estimation are addressed for a class of systems governed by partial differential equations with bounded input and output operators. Diffusion equations are an important example in this class. Explicit formulas…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Carolina Bergeling , Kirsten A. Morris , Anders Rantzer

This note is addressed to giving a short introduction to control theory of stochastic systems, governed by stochastic differential equations in both finite and infinite dimensions. We will mainly explain the new phenomenon and difficulties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Qi Lu , Xu Zhang

In this contribution, we study an optimal control problem for the celebrated nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation endowed with the singular Flory-Huggins potential in the three-dimensional setting. The control enters the governing state system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Andrea Poiatti , Andrea Signori

In this paper, we discuss optimality conditions for optimization problems involving random state constraints, which are modeled in probabilistic or almost sure form. While the latter can be understood as the limiting case of the former, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Caroline Geiersbach , René Henrion

We study the convergence problem of mean-field control theory in the presence of state constraints and non-degenerate idiosyncratic noise. Our main result is the convergence of the value functions associated to stochastic control problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Samuel Daudin

We investigate $C^1$ finite element methods for one dimensional elliptic distributed optimal control problems with pointwise constraints on the derivative of the state formulated as fourth order variational inequalities for the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Susanne C. Brenner , Li-Yeng Sung , Winnifried Wollner

We study an iterative regularization method of optimal control problems with control constraints. The regularization method is based on generalized Bregman distances. We provide convergence results under a combination of a source condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Frank Pörner , Daniel Wachsmuth

We study a family of optimal control problems in which one aims at minimizing a cost that mixes a quadratic control penalization and the variance of the system, both for finitely many agents and for the mean-field dynamics as their number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

We study an optimal control problem under uncertainty, where the target function is the solution of an elliptic partial differential equation with random coefficients, steered by a control function. The robust formulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja , Frances Y. Kuo , Claudia Schillings , Ian H. Sloan