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This paper presents first results for near optimality in expectation of the closed-loop solutions for stochastic economic MPC. The approach relies on a recently developed turnpike property for stochastic optimal control problems at an…

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

We consider irreversible and coupled reversible-irreversible nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and the respective sets of thermodynamic equilibria. In particular, we are concerned with optimal state transitions and output stabilization on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke

In this article, we establish exponential turnpike theorems for a class of nonlinear deterministic meanfield optimal control problems. We carry out our analysis simultaneously in the so-called Lagrangian and Eulerian frameworks. In the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Benoît Bonnet-Weill , Giovanni Colombo , Denis Shishmintsev , Emmanuel Trélat

Control theory of dynamical systems offers a powerful framework for tackling challenges in deep neural networks and other machine learning architectures. We show that concepts such as simultaneous and ensemble controllability offer new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Enrique Zuazua

In recent papers it has been suggested that human locomotion may be modeled as an inverse optimal control problem. In this paradigm, the trajectories are assumed to be solutions of an optimal control problem that has to be determined. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Yacine Chitour , Frédéric Jean , Paolo Mason

We consider a vibrating string that is fixed at one end with Neumann control action at the other end. We investigate the optimal control problem of steering this system from given initial data to rest, in time T , by minimizing an objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Martin Gugat , Emmanuel Trélat , Enrique Zuazua

We investigate optimal control of linear port-Hamiltonian systems with control constraints, in which one aims to perform a state transition with minimal energy supply. Decomposing the state space into dissipative and non-dissipative (i.e.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Manuel Schaller , Friedrich Philipp , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann , Bernhard Maschke

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

Transferring a physical system from an initial to a final state while minimizing energetic losses is an interdisciplinary control problem that bridges stochastic thermodynamics and optimal transport theory. Recent research typically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Jann van der Meer , Andreas Dechant

The paper addresses an existence problem for infinite horizon optimal control when the system under control is exponentially stabilizable or stable. Classes of nonlinear control systems for which infinite horizon optimal controls exist are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Noboru Sakamoto

Considering a general nonlinear dissipative finite dimensional optimal control problem in fixed time horizon T , we establish a two-term asymptotic expansion of the value function as $T\rightarrow+\infty$. The dominating term is T times the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Veljko Askovic , Emmanuel Trélat , Hasnaa Zidani

Optical techniques have been employed to coherently control the quantum transport through nanojunctions. Conventional works on optical control of quantum transport usually applied a tailored electrical pulses to perform specific tasks. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Yu Zhang

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

Optimal processes in stochastic thermodynamics are a frontier for understanding the control and design of non-equilibrium systems, with broad practical applications in biology, chemistry, and nanoscale/mesoscale systems. Optimal mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-15 Atul Tanaji Mohite , Heiko Rieger

Turnpike theorems state that if an investor's utility is asymptotically equivalent to a power utility, then the optimal investment strategy converges to the CRRA strategy as the investment horizon tends to infinity. This paper aims to…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-02 Hiroki Yamamichi

This paper provides necessary conditions of optimality for optimal control problems with time delays in both state and control variables. Different versions of the necessary conditions cover fixed end-time problems and, under additional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Andrea Boccia , Richard B. Vinter

We consider the singular optimal control problem of minimizing the energy supply of linear dissipative port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems subject to control and terminal state constraints. To this end, after reducing the problem to an ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

This paper is devoted to analysing the explicit slow decay rate and turnpike in the infinite-horizon linear quadratic optimal control problems for hyperbolic systems. Assume that some weak observability or controllability are satisfied, by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Zhong-Jie Han , Enrique Zuazua

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

A coordinate-free proof of the Maximum Principle is provided in the specific case of an optimal control problem with fixed time. Our treatment heavily relies on a special notion of variation of curves that consist of a concatenation of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Langerock