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In this paper we consider a constrained parabolic optimal control problem. The cost functional is quadratic and it combines the distance of the trajectory of the system from the desired evolution profile together with the cost of a control.…
A finite element analysis of a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the linear parabolic equation is presented in this article. The Dirichlet control is considered in a closed and convex subset of the energy space $H^1(\Omega…
In this paper, we consider a class of optimal control problems governed by 1D parabolic state-systems of KWC types with dynamic boundary conditions. The state-systems are based on a phase-field model of grain boundary motion, proposed in…
We investigate robust optimization problems defined for maximizing convex functions. For finite uncertainty set, we develop a geometric branch-and-bound algorithmic approach to solve this problem. The geometric branch-and-bound algorithm…
A class of optimal control problems of hybrid nature governed by semilinear parabolic equations is considered. These problems involve the optimization of switching times at which the dynamics, the integral cost, and the bounds on the…
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…
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…
In this paper we present a new steepest-descent type algorithm for convex optimization problems. Our algorithm pieces the unknown into sub-blocs of unknowns and considers a partial optimization over each sub-bloc. In quadratic optimization,…
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…
We consider mixed-integer optimal control problems with combinatorial constraints that couple over time such as minimum dwell times. We analyze a lifting and decomposition approach into a mixed-integer optimal control problem without…
In this paper, we consider a class of time-optimal control problems governed by linear parabolic equations with mixed control-state constraints and end-point constraints, and without Tikhonov regularization term in the objective function.…
In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal control problem and derive the first-order optimality condition…
Optimal control of the singular nonlinear parabolic PDE which is a distributional formulation of multidimensional and multiphase Stefan-type free boundary problem is analyzed. Approximating sequence of finite-dimensional optimal control…
In this paper we study the conditioning of optimal control problems constrained by linear parabolic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. While we concentrate on a given end-time target function the results hold also when the target…
The paper provides global optimization algorithms for two particularly difficult nonconvex problems raised by hybrid system identification: switching linear regression and bounded-error estimation. While most works focus on local…
In this paper we present explicit bounds for optimal control in a Lagrange problem without end-point constraints. The approach we use is due to Gamkrelidze and is based on the equivalence of the Lagrange problem and a time-optimal problem…
This paper concerns some time optimal control problems of three different ordinary differential equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Corresponding to certain initial data and controls, the solutions of the systems quench at finite time. The goal to…
The equivalence of time-optimal and distance-optimal control problems is shown for a class of parabolic control systems. Based on this equivalence, an approach for the efficient algorithmic solution of time-optimal control problems is…
This paper focuses on the identical parallel machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup time, with special attention paid to the uncertainty of processing time. In this paper, a mathematical model of the parallel machine…
A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…