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In this paper, minimal time and minimal norm control problems are studied. The target sets considered are the origin of state spaces and controls are point-wisely bounded functions. The system stuided in this paper is assumed to have no the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Gengsheng Wang , Yubiao Zhang

In this paper, we prove a logarithmic convexity that reflects an observability estimate at a single point of time for 1-D heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. Consequently, we establish the impulse approximate controllability for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-23 S. E. Chorfi , G. El Guermai , L. Maniar , W. Zouhair

Progress in miniaturized technology allows us to control physical systems at nanoscale with remarkable precision. Experimental advancements have sparked interest in control problems in stochastic thermodynamics, typically concerning a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-26 Julia Sanders , Marco Baldovin , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

This paper studies the approximate and null controllability for impulse controlled systems of heat equations coupled by a pair (A,B) of constant matrices. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for the approximate controllability,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Shulin Qin , Gengsheng Wang

In many practical applications of control theory some constraints on the state and/or on the control need to be imposed. In this paper, we prove controllability results for semilinear parabolic equations under positivity constraints on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Dario Pighin , Enrique Zuazua

We consider the linear heat equation with a Wentzell-type boundary condition and a Dirichlet control. Such a boundary condition can be reformulated as one of dynamic type. First, we formulate the boundary controllability problem of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 S. E. Chorfi , M. I. Ismailov , L. Maniar , I. Öner

In this paper, we solve the problem of simultaneously driving in minimum time to arbitrary final conditions, N two level quantum systems subject to independent controls. The solution of this problem is obtained via an explicit description…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 Francesca Albertini , Domenico D'Alessandro

This paper examines the impulse controllability of degenerate singular parabolic equations through a modern framework focused on finite-time stabilization. Furthermore, we provide an explicit estimate for the exponential decay of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Walid Zouhair , Ghita El Guermai , Ilham Ouelddris

In this paper we solve two equivalent time optimal control problems. On one hand, we design the control field to implement in minimum time the SWAP (or equivalent) operator on a two-level system, assuming that it interacts with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Raffaele Romano , Domenico D'Alessandro

The problem concerning the minimum time for an initial state to evolve up to a target state plays an important role in the Classic Optimal Control theory. In the quantum context, as quantum states are so sensitive to environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Alexandre Coutinho Lisboa , Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira

We present the conditions under which the time-optimal control problem for a nonlinear non-autonomous linearizable system can be solved by the method of successive approximations, at each step of which a power Markov moment min-problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Katerina V. Sklyar , Svetlana Yu. Ignatovich

We consider a continuous time stochastic optimal control problem under both equality and inequality constraints on the expectation of some functionals of the controlled process. Under a qualification condition, we show that the problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Laurent Pfeiffer , Xiaolu Tan , Yulong Zhou

This paper develops a mathematical framework that aims to control the temperature and rotational speed in the activation process of a gas turbine in an optimal way. These controls influence the deformation and the stress in the component…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Nicolai Friedlich , Hanno Gottschalk , Georg Vossen

The minimization of energy-like cost functionals is addressed in the context of optimal control problems. For a general class of dynamical systems, with possibly unstable and nonlinear free dynamics, it is shown that a sequence of solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Sérgio S. Rodrigues

We consider an optimal control problem with tracking-type cost functional constrained by the Cattaneo equation, which is a well-known model for delayed heat transfer. In particular, we are interested the asymptotic behaviour of the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth , René Pinnau , Matthias Andres , Claudia Totzeck

In this paper, we address two minimal controllability problems, where the goal is to determine a minimal subset of state variables in a linear time-invariant system to be actuated to ensure controllability under additional constraints.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Sergio Pequito , Guilherme Ramos , Soummya Kar , A. Pedro Aguiar , Jaime Ramos

In the first part of this paper we introduced an algorithm that uses reachable set approximation to approximate the minimum time function of linear control problems. To illustrate the error estimates and to demonstrate differences to other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Robert Baier , Thuy Thi Thien Le

In this paper, we are concerned with the boundary controllability of heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. More precisely, we prove that the equation is null controllable at any positive time by means of a boundary control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-23 S. E. Chorfi , G. El Guermai , A. Khoutaibi , L. Maniar

We give the solution to the minimum-energy control problem for linear stochastic systems. The problem is as follows: given an exactly controllable system, find the control process with the minimum expected energy that transfers the system…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Bujar Gashi

Time optimal control problems for some non-smooth systems in general form are considered. The non-smoothness is caused by singularity. It is proved that Pontryagin's maximum principle holds for at least one optimal relaxed control. Thus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Hongwei Lou , Junjie Wen , Yashan Xu