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In this article, we investigate a time-optimal state-constrained bilevel optimal control problem whose lower-level dynamics feature a sweeping control process involving a {\it truncated normal cone}. By bilevel, it is meant that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

Recently, literature on dynamic coherent risk measures has broadened the choices for risk-sensitive performance evaluation. A running example includes Cumulative prospect theory and Conditional variance at risk. Most of them can be can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Weixin Wang

Multistage risk-averse optimal control problems with nested conditional risk mappings are gaining popularity in various application domains. Risk-averse formulations interpolate between the classical expectation-based stochastic and minimax…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Pantelis Sopasakis , Mathijs Schuurmans , Panagiotis Patrinos

Many practical applications of control require that constraints on the inputs and states of the system be respected, while optimizing some performance criterion. In the presence of model uncertainties or disturbances, for many control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Georg Schildbach , Lorenzo Fagiano , Christoph Frei , Manfred Morari

Solving optimal control problems to determine a stabilizing controller involves a significant computational effort. Time-varying optimal control provides a remedy by designing a tracking system, given as an ordinary differential equation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Patrick Schmidt , Stefan Streif

In this paper, the mathematical programs with vanishing constraints or MPVC are considered. We prove that an MPVC-tailored penalty function, introduced in [5], is still exact under a very weak and new constraint qualification. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Triloki Nath , Abeka Khare

This paper presents a novel feasible-set reshaping technique to optimization-based control with ensured constraint qualification. In our problem setting, the feasible set of admissible control inputs depends on the real-time state of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Si Wu , Tengfei Liu , Yiguang Hong , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Tianyou Chai

This paper addresses two related problems in optimal control. The first investigation consists of compatibility issues between two classical approaches to deriving necessary conditions for optimal control problems with a final target: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Monica Motta , Michele Palladino , Franco Rampazzo

Autonomous systems often have logical constraints arising, for example, from safety, operational, or regulatory requirements. Such constraints can be expressed using temporal logic specifications. The system state is often partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Krishna C. Kalagarla , Dhruva Kartik , Dongming Shen , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar , Pierluigi Nuzzo

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

We introduce a weak asymptotic version of nonlinear contraction, termed \emph{asymptotic pointwise contraction}. For a mapping on a metric space, this notion requires the existence of a sequence of functions that dominate the distances…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jie Shi

A general condition determining the optimal performance of a complex system has not yet been found and the possibility of its existence is unknown. To contribute in this direction, an optimization algorithm as a complex system is presented.…

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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

Approximate stationarity conditions provide necessary optimality conditions without requiring additional assumptions by demanding that a perturbed stationarity system possesses solutions as the involved perturbations tend to zero. Together…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Isabella Käming , Patrick Mehlitz

In this note, we develop the first-order theory of optimal control problems with box constraints on the control. We emphasize the precise modification of Pontryagin's maximum principle when the admissible control set is compact, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Louis Shuo Wang

We address Newton-type problems of minimal resistance from an optimal control perspective. It is proven that for Newton-type problems the Pontryagin maximum principle is a necessary and sufficient condition. Solutions are then computed for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Delfim F. M. Torres , Alexander Yu. Plakhov

It has been shown recently that optimal control problems with the dynamical constraint given by a second order system admit a regular Lagrangian formulation. This implies that the optimality conditions can be obtained in a new form based on…

The article is devoted to the problem of applying the maximum principle for finding optimal control parameters in simulation tasks of interest for a variety of engineering and industrial systems and processes. Especially important is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Ivan V. Kazachkov

In the paper we consider the infinite horizon control problems on the interval with free right-hand endpoint. We obtain the necessary conditions of strict optimality. The method of the proof actually follows the classic paper by Halkin, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Dmitry Khlopin

In this paper, we consider the notions of effort and resilience of a dynamical control system defined by the maximum disturbance the system can withstand while satisfying given finite temporal logic specifications. Given a dynamical system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Youssef Ait Si , Ratnangshu Das , Negar Monir , Sadegh Soudjani , Pushpak Jagtap , Adnane Saoud