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This paper focuses on the stability of solutions for a velocity-tracking problem associated with the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. The considered optimal control problem does not possess any regularizer in the cost, and hence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Nicolai Jork , Šarká Nečasová , John Sebastian H. Simon

This paper studies a robust stochastic control problem with a monotone mean-variance cost functional and random coefficients. The main technique is to find the saddle point through two backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Yuyang Chen , Tianjiao Hua , Peng Luo

We address the problem of safely learning controlled stochastic dynamics from discrete-time trajectory observations, ensuring system trajectories remain within predefined safe regions during both training and deployment. Safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Luc Brogat-Motte , Alessandro Rudi , Riccardo Bonalli

The goal of this paper is to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems numerically, in which the state process is governed by an It\^o type stochastic differential equation with control process entering both in the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Richard Archibald , Feng Bao , Jiongmin Yong , Tao Zhou

We deal with an infinite horizon, infinite dimensional stochastic optimal control problem arising in the study of economic growth in time-space. Such problem has been the object of various papers in deterministic cases when the possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Fausto Gozzi , Marta Leocata

The quantum navigation problem of finding the time-optimal control Hamiltonian that transports a given initial state to a target state through quantum wind, that is, under the influence of external fields or potentials, is analysed. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dorje C. Brody , Gary W. Gibbons , David M. Meier

The purpose of this paper is to establish first and second order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems of stochastic evolution equations with control and state constraints. The control acts both in the drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Hélène Frankowska , Qi Lü

We consider a class of stochastic impulse control problems of general stochastic processes i.e. not necessarily Markovian. Under fairly general conditions we establish existence of an optimal impulse control. We also prove existence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-18 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Ibtissam Hdhiri

In this article, we discuss two algorithms tailored to discrete-time deterministic finite-horizon nonlinear optimal control problems or so-called deterministic trajectory optimization problems. Both algorithms can be derived from an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Mohammad Mahmoudi Filabadi , Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

In this work we first present the existence, uniqueness and regularity of the strong solution of the tidal dynamics model perturbed by L\'evy noise. Monotonicity arguments have been exploited in the proofs. We then formulate a martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Pooja Agarwal , Utpal Manna , Debopriya Mukherjee

In this paper we investigate the optimal control problem for a class of stochastic Cauchy evolution problem with non standard boundary dynamic and control. The model is composed by an infinite dimensional dynamical system coupled with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 S. Bonaccorsi , F. Confortola , E. Mastrogiacomo

We consider a controlled reaction-diffusion equation, motivated by a pest eradication problem. Our goal is to derive a simpler model, describing the controlled evolution of a contaminated set. In this direction, the first part of the paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Alberto Bressan , Maria Teresa Chiri , Najmeh Salehi

We investigate constrained optimal control problems for linear stochastic dynamical systems evolving in discrete time. We consider minimization of an expected value cost over a finite horizon. Hard constraints are introduced first, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Eugenio Cinquemani , Mayank Agarwal , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

Dual control denotes a class of control problems where the parameters governing the system are imperfectly known. The challenge is to find the optimal balance between probing, i.e. exciting the system to understand it more, and caution,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Martin Péron , Christopher M. Baker , Barry D. Hughes , Iadine Chadès

We consider optimal transport problems where the cost is optimized over controlled dynamics and the end time is free. Unlike the classical setting, the search for optimal transport plans also requires the identification of optimal "stopping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

In this paper, we propose a new policy iteration algorithm to compute the value function and the optimal controls of continuous time stochastic control problems. The algorithm relies on successive approximations using linear-quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Dylan Possamaï , Ludovic Tangpi

In control theory, typically a nominal model is assumed based on which an optimal control is designed and then applied to an actual (true) system. This gives rise to the problem of performance loss due to the mismatch between the true model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Somnath Pradhan , Serdar Yuksel

From economics point of view, we investigate a new optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential equation with a multi-time states cost functional. By constructing a series of first-order adjoint equations, we establish the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-15 Shuzhen Yang

This paper is addressed to studying the exact controllability for stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equations by two controls. One is a boundary control in the drift term and the other is an internal control in the diffusion term. By means of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Qi Lu

In many human-in-the-loop robotic applications such as robot-assisted surgery and remote teleoperation, predicting the intended motion of the human operator may be useful for successful implementation of shared control, guidance virtual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Arun Kumar Singh , Sigal Berman , Ilana Nisky