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We present a new proof of the turnpike property for nonlinear optimal control problems, when the running target is a steady control-state pair of the underlying system. Our strategy combines the construction of quasi-turnpike controls via…

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In this paper, a robust data-driven moving horizon estimation (MHE) scheme for linear time-invariant discrete-time systems is introduced. The scheme solely relies on offline collected data without employing any system identification step.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

Online trajectory optimization and optimal control methods are crucial for enabling sustainable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) services, such as agriculture, environmental monitoring, and transportation, where available actuation and energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Derek Fan , David A. Copp

This paper analyzes the limiting behavior of stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems in finite time horizon $[0,T]$ as $T\rightarrow\infty$. The so-called turnpike properties are established for such problems, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Jingrui Sun , Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

Our main contribution in this article is the achievement of the turnpike property in its integral and exponential forms for parameter-dependent systems with averaged observations in the cost functional. Namely, under suitable assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Martín Hernández , Martin Lazar , Sebastián Zamorano

The turnpike phenomenon stipulates that the solution of an optimal control problem in large time, remains essentially close to a steady-state of the dynamics, itself being the optimal solution of an associated static optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Emmanuel Trélat

Round-Trip Times are one of the most commonly collected performance metrics in computer networks. Measurement platforms such as RIPE Atlas provide researchers and network operators with an unprecedented amount of historical Internet delay…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Maxime Mouchet , Sandrine Vaton , Thierry Chonavel , Emile Aben , Jasper den Hertog

We consider averages convergence as the time-horizon goes to infinity of optimal solutions of time-dependent optimal control problems to optimal solutions of the corresponding stationary optimal control problems. Control problems play a key…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Mahamadi Warma , Sebastian Zamorano

We study a class of infinite horizon impulse control problems with execution delay when the dynamics of the system is described by a general adapted stochastic process. The problem is solved by means of probabilistic tools relying on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Ibtissem Hdhiri , Helmi Zaatra

In this paper, we develop several necessary conditions of turnpike property for generalizaid linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem in infinite dimensional setting. The term 'generalized' here means that both quadratic and linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Roberto Guglielmi , Zhuqing Li

A typical bottleneck of model predictive control algorithms is the computational burden in order to compute the receding horizon feedback law which is predominantly determined by the length of the prediction horizon. Based on a relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Jürgen Pannek , Karl Worthmann

In this paper, we present performance estimates for stochastic economic MPC schemes with risk-averse cost formulations. For MPC algorithms with costs given by the expectation of stage cost evaluated in random variables, it was recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Michael H. Baumann , Timm Faulwasser , Lars Grüne

The $H_2$ norm is a commonly used performance metric in the design of estimators. However, $H_2$-optimal estimation of most PDEs is complicated by the lack of transfer function and state-space representations. To address this problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Danio Braghini , Sachin Shivakumar , Matthew M. Peet

Optimisation-based algorithms known as Moving Horizon Estimator (MHE) have been developed through the years. This paper illustrates the implementation of the policy introduced in the companion paper submitted to the 18th IFAC Workshop on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Federico Oliva , Daniele Carnevale

The paper proposes first steps towards the formalization and characterization of time-varying turnpikes in optimal control of mechanical systems. We propose the concepts of velocity steady states, which can be considered as partial steady…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Timm Faulwasser , Kathrin Flaßkamp , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Karl Worthmann

This paper presents a simulation study on turnpike phenomena in stochastic optimal control problems. We employ the framework of Polynomial Chaos Expansions (PCE) to investigate the presence of turnpikes in stochastic LQ problems. Our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Ruchuan Ou , Michael Heinrich Baumann , Lars Grüne , Timm Faulwasser

This paper is concerned with optimal control problems for a linear homogeneous stochastic differential equation having regime switching with purely quadratic functional in the large time horizons. We establish the so-called turnpike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Hongwei Mei , Rui Wang , Jiongmin Yong

The problem of optimal stopping with finite horizon in discrete time is considered in view of maximizing the expected gain. The algorithm proposed in this paper is completely nonparametric in the sense that it uses observed data from the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-24 Michael Kohler , Harro Walk

This paper presents an open-source miniature car-like robot with low-cost sensing and a pipeline for optimization-based system identification, state estimation, and control. The overall robotics platform comes at a cost of less than \$\,700…

This paper studies an optimization-based state estimation approach for discrete-time nonlinear systems under bounded process and measurement disturbances. We first introduce a full information estimator (FIE), which is given as a solution…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Wuhua Hu , Lihua Xie , Keyou You