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We consider a bilinear optimal control problem with pointwise tracking for a semilinear elliptic PDE in two and three dimensions. The control variable enters the PDE as a (reaction) coefficient and the cost functional contains point…

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We propose an optimal control framework for persistent monitoring problems where the objective is to control the movement of mobile nodes to minimize an uncertainty metric in a given mission space. For multi agent in a one-dimensional…

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We develop a theory of existence of minimizers of energy functionals in vectorial problems based on a nonlocal gradient under Dirichlet boundary conditions. The model shares many features with the peridynamics model and is also applicable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-07 José C. Bellido , Javier Cueto , Carlos Mora-Corral

We propose an optimal control framework for persistent monitoring problems where the objective is to control the movement of mobile agents to minimize an uncertainty metric in a given mission space. For a single agent in a one-dimensional…

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In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems subject to a semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. The cost functional contains a term that measures the size of the support of the control, which is the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Eduardo Casas , Daniel Wachsmuth

We consider optimal control problems of elliptic PDEs on hypersurfaces in 2- or 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The leading part of the PDE is given by the Laplace-Beltrami operator, which is discretized by finite elements on a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-10 Michael Hinze , Morten Vierling

We study the limiting behavior of solutions to boundary value nonlinear problems involving the fractional Laplacian of order $2s$ when the parameter $s$ tends to zero. In particular, we show that least-energy solutions converge (up to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Víctor Hernández-Santamaría , Alberto Saldaña

The nonlocal problems have been used to model very different applied scientific phenomena, which involve the fractional Laplacian when one looks at the L\'{e}vy processes and stochastic interfaces. This paper deals with the nonlocal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Minghua Chen , Sven-Erik Ekström , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

We investigate the application of a posteriori error estimates to a fractional optimal control problem with pointwise control constraints. Specifically, we address a problem in which the state equation is formulated as an integral form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Fangyuan Wang , Qiming Wang , Zhaojie Zhou

An optimal control problem with a time-parameter is considered. The functional to be optimized includes the maximum over time-horizon reached by a function of the state variable, and so an $L^\infty$-term. In addition to the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Sébastien Court , Karl Kunisch , Laurent Pfeiffer

We use the technique developed in [32]-[33] to construct the upper and the lower bounds for classes of problems containing non-local terms, including problems in micromagnetics and problems arising in the variational study of the Method of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Arkady Poliakovsky

We study optimal design problems where the design corresponds to a coefficient in the principal part of the state equation. The state equation, in addition, is parameter dependent, and we allow it to change type in the limit of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Tadele Mengesha , Abner J. Salgado , Joshua M. Siktar

We consider policy gradient methods for stochastic optimal control problem in continuous time. In particular, we analyze the gradient flow for the control, viewed as a continuous time limit of the policy gradient method. We prove the global…

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This paper is concerned with numerically finding a global solution of constrained optimal control problems with many local minima. The focus is on the optimal decentralized control (ODC) problem, whose feasible set is recently shown to have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Yuhao Ding , Han Feng , Javad Lavaei

Solving optimal control problems (OCPs) of autonomous agents operating under spatial and temporal constraints fast and accurately is essential in applications ranging from eco-driving of autonomous vehicles to quadrotor navigation. However,…

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Optimal control problems can be solved via a one-shot (single) optimization or a sequence of optimization using dynamic programming (DP). However, the computation of their global optima often faces NP-hardness, and thus only locally optimal…

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In this paper we derive a necessary optimality condition for a local optimal solution of some control problems. These optimal control problems are governed by a semi-linear Vettsel boundary value problem of a linear elliptic equation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Yousong Luo

An abstract framework guaranteeing the local continuous differentiability of the value function associated with optimal stabilization problems subject to abstract semilinear parabolic equations subject to a norm constraint on the controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Karl Kunisch , Buddhika Priyasad

From the recent developing of nonlocal gradients with finite horizon $\delta>0$ based on general kernels, we introduce a new nonlocal $p$-Laplacian and study the eigenvalue problem associated with it. Furthermore, by virtue of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Guillermo García-Sáez

We study an optimal control problem in which both the objective function and the dynamic constraint contain an uncertain parameter. Since the distribution of this uncertain parameter is not exactly known, the objective function is taken as…

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