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This paper addresses the controllability of a class of quasi-linear parabolic equations governed by multiplicative controls with mobile support. To prove the existence of such a control forcing the solution to rest at time $T>0$, we first…

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Output controllability and functional observability are properties that enable, respectively, the control and estimation of part of the state vector. These notions are of utmost importance in applications to high-dimensional systems, such…

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In mathematics and engineering, control theory is concerned with the analysis of dynamical systems through the application of suitable control inputs. One of the prominent problems in control theory is controllability which concerns the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Franco Bagnoli , Sara Dridi , Bassem Sellami , Amira Mouakher , Samira El Yacoubi

We study the null-controllability of parabolic equations associated to non-autonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators. When a Kalman type condition holds for some positive time $T>0$, these parabolic equations are shown to enjoy a Gevrey…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Karine Beauchard , Karel Pravda-Starov

We consider a fully-discrete approximations of 1-D heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions for which we provide a controllability result. The proof of this result is based on a relaxed observability inequality for the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Rodrigo Lecaros , Roberto Morales , Ariel Pérez , Sebastián Zamorano

The current study addresses the control problems posed by a semilinear neutral integro-differential equation with memory. The primary objectives of this study are to investigate the existence of a mild solution and approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Sumit Arora , Akambadath Nandakumaran

Let $\Delta$ be the Dirichlet Laplacian on the interval $(0,\pi)$. The null controllability properties of the equation $$u_{tt}+\Delta^2 u+\rho (\Delta)^\alpha u_t=F(x,t)$$ are studied. Let $T>0$, and assume initial conditions $(u^0,u^1)\in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Sergei Avdonin , Julian Edward , Sergei Ivanov

The increasing ease of obtaining and processing data together with the growth in system complexity has sparked the interest in moving from conventional model-based control design towards data-driven concepts. Since in many engineering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Juan G. Rueda-Escobedo , Emilia Fridman , Johannes Schiffer

In quantum control theory, the fundamental issue of controllability covers the questions whether and under which conditions a system can be steered from one pure state into another by suitably tuned time evolution operators. Even though Lie…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Margret Heinze , Michael Keyl

In this paper, we continue the study of some controllability issues for the forward stochastic heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The main novelty in the present paper consists of considering only one control without extra…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Mahmoud Baroun , Said Boulite , Abdellatif Elgrou , Omar Oukdach

The duality between controllability and observability enables methods developed for full-state control to be applied to full-state estimation, and vice versa. In applications in which control or estimation of all state variables is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Arthur N. Montanari , Chao Duan , Adilson E. Motter

This article presents a new characterization of controllability and regional controllability of Deterministic Cellular Automata (CA for short). It focuses on analyzing these problems within the framework of control theory, which have been…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Sara Dridi

In this paper, we study the simultaneous controllability of wave systems in an open domain of R d , d $\in$ N *. We obtain a partial controllability result on a co-finite dimensional space for wave equations coupled by a single control…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Jingrui Niu

We study (approximate) null-controllability of parabolic equations in $L_p(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and provide explicit bounds on the control cost. In particular we consider systems of the form $\dot{x}(t) = -A_p x(t) + \mathbf{1}_E u(t)$, $x(0) =…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Clemens Bombach , Dennis Gallaun , Christian Seifert , Martin Tautenhahn

In this paper, optimal time control problems and optimal target control problems are studied for the approximately null-controllable heat equations. Compared with the existed results on these problems, the boundary of control variables are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Ning Chen , Yanqing Wang , Dong-Hui Yang

This paper addresses null controllability for both forward and backward linear stochastic parabolic equations by introducing convection terms on the drift parts with bounded coefficients. Moreover, the forward stochastic parabolic equation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 M. Baroun , S. Boulite , A. Elgrou , L. Maniar

This work highlights the duality between state estimation methods and model predictive control. A predictive controller, observed control, is presented that uses this duality to efficiently compute control actions with linear time-horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Eugene T. Hamzezadeh , Andrew J. Petruska

The objective of this paper is to study the controllability of discrete-time linear control systems in solvable Lie groups. In the special case of nilpotent Lie groups, a necessary and sufficient condition for controllability is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Thiago Cavalheiro , Alexandre Santana , João Cossich , Victor Ayala

This paper is devoted to the study of the null and approximate controllability for some classes of linear coupled parabolic systems with less controls than equations. More precisely, for a given bounded domain in R^N, we consider a system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Michel Duprez , Pierre Lissy