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Sampling-based motion planning algorithms have been continuously developed for more than two decades. Apart from mobile robots, they are also widely used in manipulator motion planning. Hence, these methods play a key role in collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Carl Gaebert , Sascha Kaden , Benjamin Fischer , Ulrike Thomas

The optimal control input for linear systems can be solved from algebraic Riccati equation (ARE), from which it remains questionable to get the form of the exact solution. In engineering, the acceptable numerical solutions of ARE can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-07 Shengbo Wang , Shiping Wen , Kaibo Shi , Song Zhu , Tingwen Huang

Real-time computation of optimal control is a challenging problem and, to solve this difficulty, many frameworks proposed to use learning techniques to learn (possibly sub-optimal) controllers and enable their usage in an online fashion.…

Mobile manipulators have been employed in many applications that are traditionally performed by either multiple fixed-base robots or a large robotic system. This capability is enabled by the mobility of the mobile base. However, the mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Quang-Nam Nguyen , Quang-Cuong Pham

This paper presents a novel methodology to develop scheduling algorithms. The scheduling problem is phrased as a control problem, and control-theoretical techniques are used to design a scheduling algorithm that meets specific requirements.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2010-09-20 Carlo A. Furia , Alberto Leva , Martina Maggio , Paola Spoletini

This paper presents a decentralized algorithm for a team of agents to track time-varying fixed points that are the solutions to time-varying convex optimization problems. The algorithm is first-order, and it allows for total asynchrony in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Hale

This paper presents a continuous-time optimal control framework for the generation of reference trajectories in driving scenarios with uncertainty. A previous work presented a discrete-time stochastic generator for autonomous vehicles;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ange Valli , Shangyuan Zhang , Abdel Lisser

In this article we investigate an inexact iterative regularization method based on generalized Bregman distances of an optimal control problem with control constraints. We show robustness and convergence of the inexact Bregman method under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Frank Pörner

In this paper, we investigate the problem of joint searching and tracking of multiple mobile targets by a group of mobile agents. The targets appear and disappear at random times inside a surveillance region and their positions are random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

We introduce an alternative approach for the analysis and numerical approximation of the optimal feedback control mapping. It consists in looking at a typical optimal control problem in such a way that feasible controls are mappings…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Pablo Pedregal

Multi-robot target tracking finds extensive applications in different scenarios, such as environmental surveillance and wildfire management, which require the robustness of the practical deployment of multi-robot systems in uncertain and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiazhen Liu , Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

We present controllers that enable mobile robots to persistently monitor or sweep a changing environment. The changing environment is modeled as a field which grows in locations that are not within range of a robot, and decreases in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Stephen L. Smith , Mac Schwager , Daniela Rus

This paper examines the degree to which an evader seeking a safe and efficient path to a target location can benefit from increasing levels of knowledge regarding one or more range-limited pursuers seeking to intercept it. Unlike previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Thomas Chapman , Alexander Von Moll , Isaac E. Weintraub

This paper studies the problem of steering a linear time-invariant system subject to state and input constraints towards a goal location that may be inferred only through partial observations. We assume mixed-observable settings, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Ugo Rosolia , Yuxiao Chen , Shreyansh Daftry , Masahiro Ono , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

Multi-robot collaboration for target tracking in adversarial environments poses significant challenges, including system failures, dynamic priority shifts, and other unpredictable factors. These challenges become even more pronounced when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Peihan Li , Yuwei Wu , Jiazhen Liu , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

This paper describes autonomous racing of RC race cars based on mathematical optimization. Using a dynamical model of the vehicle, control inputs are computed by receding horizon based controllers, where the objective is to maximize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Alexander Liniger , Alexander Domahidi , Manfred Morari

This work considers the problem of approximating initial condition and time-dependent optimal control and trajectory surfaces using multivariable Fourier series. A modified Augmented Lagrangian algorithm for translating the optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Gabriel Nicolosi , Terry Friesz , Christopher Griffin

In this paper, further extensions of the result of the paper "A successive approximation method in functional spaces for hierarchical optimal control problems and its application to learning, arXiv:2410.20617 [math.OC], 2024" concerning a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Getachew K. Befekadu

This study focuses on the problem of optimal mismatched disturbance rejection control for uncontrollable linear discrete-time systems. In contrast to previous studies, by introducing a quadratic performance index such that the regulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Shichao Lv , Hongdan Li , Kai Peng , Huanshui Zhang