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We show that any semi-algebraic sweeping process admits piecewise absolutely continuous solutions, and any such bounded trajectory must have finite length. Analogous results hold more generally for sweeping processes definable in o-minimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Aris Daniilidis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems governed by discontinuous constrained differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving the duration of the dynamic process into optimization. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

We study the relation between sweeping processes with the cone of limiting normals and projection processes. We prove the existence of solution of a perturbed sweeping process with the cone of limiting normals and of nonstationary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Mira Bivas , Nadezhda Ribarska

This paper addresses a new class of optimal control problems for perturbed sweeping processes with measurable controls in additive perturbations of the dynamics and smooth controls in polyhedral moving sets. We develop a constructive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Tan H. Cao , Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

We study sweeping processes in a Hilbert space driven by time-dependent uniformly prox-regular sets, allowing the moving constraint to exhibit discontinuities of bounded variation. We introduce a new integral formulation for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Emilio Vilches

In this paper, we develop an inexact version of the catching-up algorithm for sweeping processes. We define a new notion of approximate projection, which is compatible with any numerical method for approximating exact projections, as this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Maximiliano Lioi , Emilio Vilches

We generalize a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems involving sweeping systems previously derived in ``Necessary conditions for optimal control problems with sweeping systems and end point constraints'', by de Pinho, Ferreira and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Maria do Rosario de Pinho , Maria Margarida A. Ferreira , Georgi Smirnov

The Pontryagin-type maximum principle derived in [30] for optimal control problems involving sweeping processes is generalized to the case where the sweeping set C is nonsmooth and not necessarily bounded, namely, C is the intersection of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Chadi Nour , Vera Zeidan

The sweeping process was proposed by J. J. Moreau as a general mathematical formalism for quasistatic processes in elastoplastic bodies. This formalism deals with connected Prandtl's elastic-ideal plastic springs, which can form a system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-30 D. Rachinskii

In this paper, we develop an enhanced version of the catching-up algorithm for sweeping processes through an appropriate concept of approximate projections. We establish some properties of this notion of approximate projection. Then, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Emilio Vilches

In this paper, the study of nonsmooth optimal control problems (P) involving a controlled sweeping process with three main characteristics is launched. First, the sweeping sets are nonsmooth, time-dependent, and uniformly prox-regular.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Samara Chamoun , Vera Zeidan

We consider a Caratheodory differential equation with a state-dependent convex constraint that changes BV-continuously in time (a perturbed BV-continuous state-dependent sweeping processes). By setting up an appropriate catching-up…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Mikhail Kamenskii , Oleg Makarenkov , Lakmi Niwanthi Wadippuli

The paper is mostly devoted to applications of a novel optimal control theory for perturbed sweeping/Moreau processes to two practical dynamical models. The first model addresses mobile robot dynamics with obstacles, and the second one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

In this study, we investigate optimal control problems that involve sweeping processes with a drift term and mixed inequality constraints. Our goal is to establish necessary optimality conditions for these problems. We address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Karla L. Cortez , Nathalie T. Khalil , Julio E. Solis

The paper is devoted to deriving necessary optimality conditions in a general optimal control problem for dynamical systems governed by controlled sweeping processes with hard-constrained control actions entering both polyhedral moving sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Tan H. Cao , Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen

We consider a continuous-time random walk which is defined as an interpolation of a random walk on a point process on the real line. The distances between neighboring points of the point process are i.i.d. random variables in the normal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Alessandra Bianchi , Marco Lenci , Françoise Pène

Motivated by the control of invasive biological populations, we consider a class of optimization problems for moving sets $t\mapsto \Omega(t)\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. Given an initial set $\Omega_0$, the goal is to minimize the area of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Alberto Bressan , Maria Teresa Chiri , Najmeh Salehi

We extend to $\mathrm{C}\times \mathrm{W}^{1,2}$-local minimizers and nonautonomous perturbation function, the necessary optimality conditions derived in [1], via continuous-time approximations, for $\mathrm{W}^{1,2}\times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Chadi Nour , Vera Zeidan

In this paper, we study a new variant of Moreau's sweeping process with velocity constraint. Based on an adapted version of Moreau's catching-up algorithm, we show the well-posedness (in the sense existence and uniqueness) of this problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Samir Adly , Tahar Haddad

We consider time-periodic competitive systems of ordinary differential equations of Kolmogorov type. However, compared with standard assumptions, we relax the regularity of the time-dependent per-capita growth rates by imposing much weaker…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Stephen Baigent , Janusz Mierczyński