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This paper presents a method to approximately solve stochastic optimal control problems in which the cost function and the system dynamics are polynomial. For stochastic systems with polynomial dynamics, the moments of the state can be…

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In this article we approach a class of stochastic reachability problems with state constraints from an optimal control perspective. Preceding approaches to solving these reachability problems are either confined to the deterministic setting…

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

The paper addresses a continuous-time continuous-space chance-constrained stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem where the probability of failure to satisfy given state constraints is explicitly bounded. We leverage the notion of exit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Apurva Patil , Alfredo Duarte , Fabrizio Bisetti , Takashi Tanaka

In this paper, we consider the stochastic optimal control problems under model risk caused by uncertain volatilities. To have a mathematical consistent framework we use the notion of G-expectation and its corresponding G-Brwonian motion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-18 Zhongyang Sun , Xin Zhang , Junyi Guo

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Fengjiao Liu , George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We study the problem of pathwise stochastic optimal control, where the optimization is performed for each fixed realisation of the driving noise, by phrasing the problem in terms of the optimal control of rough differential equations. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Andrew L. Allan , Samuel N. Cohen

In this article, we present a general methodology for stochastic control problems driven by the Brownian motion filtration including non-Markovian and non-semimartingale state processes controlled by mutually singular measures. The main…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Dorival Leão , Alberto Ohashi , Francys Andrews de Souza

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

This paper investigates the exact controllability problem for multi-dimensional stochastic first-order symmetric hyperbolic systems with control inputs acting in two distinct ways: an internal control applied to the diffusion term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Zengyu Li , Qi Lü , Yu Wang , Haitian Yang

We consider controlling the paths of a spectrally negative L\'evy process by two means: the subtraction of `taxes' when the process is at an all-time maximum, and the addition of `bailouts' which keep the value of the process above zero. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Dalal Al Ghanim , Ronnie Loeffen , Alexander R. Watson

We consider a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems. These can be thought of as spatial monotone follower problems and find applications in spatial models of production and climate transition. Let…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Salvatore Federico , Giorgio Ferrari , Frank Riedel , Michael Röckner

We characterize the optimal control for a class of singular stochastic control problems as the unique solution to a related Skorokhod reflection problem. The considered optimization problems concern the minimization of a discounted cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Jodi Dianetti , Giorgio Ferrari

We consider a singular stochastic control problem, which is called the Monotone Follower Stochastic Control Problem and give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a local-time type optimal control. To establish this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami

We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of controls is not necessarily convex and the system is governed by a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We establish necessary as well as sufficient conditions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

In this paper we study a Pontryagin type stochastic maximum principle for the optimal control of a system, where the state dynamics satisfy a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) driven by a two-parameter (time-space) Brownian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal , Frank Proske , Olena Tymoshenko

In this paper we study the stochastic control problem of partially observed (multi-dimensional) stochastic system driven by both Brownian motions and fractional Brownian motions. In the absence of the powerful tool of Girsanov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yueyang Zheng , Yaozhong Hu

In this paper, we first investigate necessary optimality conditions for problems governed by systems describing the flow of an incompressible second grade fluid. Next, we study the asymptotic behavior of the optimal solution when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Nadir Arada , Fernanda Cipriano

This paper considers the relaxed version of the transport problem for general nonlinear control systems, where the objective is to design time-varying feedback laws that transport a given initial probability measure to a target probability…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Piyush Grover , Spring Berman

We solve the problem of optimal stopping of a Brownian motion subject to the constraint that the stopping time's distribution is a given measure consisting of finitely-many atoms. In particular, we show that this problem can be converted to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Christopher W. Miller

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for controlling surface water waves and their interaction with floating bodies. We consider a floating target rigid body surrounded by a control region where we design three control strategies of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Sebastiano Cominelli , Carlo Sinigaglia , Davide Enrico Quadrelli , Francesco Braghin