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This paper studies the partially observed stochastic optimal control problem for systems with state dynamics governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) that leads to an extremely large problem. First, an open-loop deterministic…

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In this short communication, we announce an algorithmic procedure for constructing non-uniqueness counter-examples of classical solutions to initial-boundary-value problems for a wide class of linear evolution partial differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Andreas Chatziafratis , Spyridon Kamvissis

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem with regime switching, random coefficients, and cone control constraint. The randomness of the coefficients comes from two aspects: the Brownian motion and…

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The aim of the paper is to study an optimal control problem on infinite horizon for an infinite dimensional integro-differential equation with completely monotone kernelskernels, where we assume that the noise enters the system when we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Elisa Mastrogiacomo

Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) design is one of the most classical optimal control problems, whose well-known solution is an input sequence expressed as a state-feedback. In this work, finite-horizon and discrete-time LQR is solved under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Anna Scampicchio , Aleksandr Aravkin , Gianluigi Pillonetto

In this paper, we address the issue of model specification in probabilistic latent variable models (PLVMs) using an infinite-horizon optimal control approach. Traditional PLVMs rely on joint distributions to model complex data, but…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Zhichao Chen , Hao Wang , Licheng Pan , Yiran Ma , Yunfei Teng , Jiaze Ma , Le Yao , Zhiqiang Ge , Zhihuan Song

We present a high order, Fourier penalty method for the Maxwell's equations in the vicinity of perfect electric conductor boundary conditions. The approach relies on extending the smooth non-periodic domain of the equations to a periodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ryan Galagusz , David Shirokoff , Jean-Christophe Nave

A study of the linear quadratic (LQ) control problem on a finite time interval for a model equation in Hilbert spaces which comprehends the memory of the inputs was performed recently by the authors. The outcome included a closed-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Paolo Acquistapace , Francesca Bucci

This paper discusses discretization methods for implementing nonlinear model predictive controllers using Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (ILQR). Finite-difference approximations are mostly used to derive a discrete-time state equation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Katsuya Shigematsu , Hikaru Hoshino , Eiko Furutani

We propose an {\em implementable} numerical scheme for the discretization of linear-quadratic optimal control problems involving SDEs in higher dimensions with {\em control constraint}. For time discretization, we employ the implicit Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Abhishek Chaudhary

We investigate the application of a posteriori error estimates to a fractional optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints. Specifically, we address a problem in which the state equation is formulated as an integral form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Fangyuan Wang , Qiming Wang , Zhaojie Zhou

We consider the application of the Douglas-Rachford (DR) algorithm to solve linear-quadratic (LQ) control problems with box constraints on the state and control variables. We split the constraints of the optimal control problem into two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Regina S. Burachik , Bethany I. Caldwell , C. Yalçın Kaya

Spin squeezing serves as both a fundamental witness of quantum entanglement and a critical resource for quantum-enhanced metrology. While generating substantial spin squeezing in finite-range interacting systems remains challenging, such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Ang Li , Ling-Na Wu , Li You

This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic optimal control for a class of singular Volterra integral equations. Under proper convexity conditions, optimal control uniquely exists, and it could be characterized via Frechet derivative of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Shuo Han , Ping Lin , Jiongmin Yong

Spectral methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) often use Fourier or polynomial spectral expansions on either uniform and non-uniform grids. However, while very widely…

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We consider the optimal regulation problem for nonlinear control-affine dynamical systems. Whereas the linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) considers optimal control of a linear system with quadratic cost function, we study polynomial systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Nicholas A. Corbin , Boris Kramer

Motivated by the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in control design, this paper analyses the intersection between results from gradient methods for the model-free linear quadratic regulator (LQR), and linear feedforward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Arthur Castello B. de Oliveira , Milad Siami , Eduardo D. Sontag

The well-posedness of a class of optimal control problems is analysed, where the state equation couples a nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equation with a system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). Such problems naturally arise as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Francesca Anceschi , Giacomo Ascione , Daniele Castorina , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we announce a rigorous approach to establishing uniqueness results, under certain conditions, for initial-boundary-value problems for a class of linear evolution partial differential equations (PDEs) formulated in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Andreas Chatziafratis , Spyridon Kamvissis