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This paper studies the dynamic programming principle using the measurable selection method for stochastic control of continuous processes. The novelty of this work is to incorporate intermediate expectation constraints on the canonical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Yuk-Loong Chow , Xiang Yu , Chao Zhou

In optimal control problems, there exist different kinds of extremals, that is, curves candidates to be solution: abnormal, normal and strictly abnormal. The key point for this classification is how those extremals depend on the cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-06-18 M. Barbero Linan , M. C. Munoz-Lecanda

We study a stochastic control problem for continuous multidimensional martingales with fixed quadratic variation. In a radially symmetric environment, we are able to find an explicit solution to the control problem and find an optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Alexander M. G. Cox , Benjamin A. Robinson

The problem of continuous inverse optimal control (over finite time horizon) is to learn the unknown cost function over the sequence of continuous control variables from expert demonstrations. In this article, we study this fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yifei Xu , Jianwen Xie , Tianyang Zhao , Chris Baker , Yibiao Zhao , Ying Nian Wu

We present a new framework for prioritized multi-task motion-force control of fully-actuated robots. This work is established on a careful review and comparison of the state of the art. Some control frameworks are not optimal, that is they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Andrea Del Prete , Francesco Nori , Giorgio Metta , Lorenzo Natale

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

A time optimal attitude control problem is studied for the dynamics of a rigid body. The objective is to minimize the time to rotate the rigid body to a desired attitude and angular velocity while subject to constraints on the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-19 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

We develop a simple and accurate method to solve fractional variational and fractional optimal control problems with dependence on Caputo and Riemann-Liouville operators. Using known formulas for computing fractional derivatives of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Salman Jahanshahi , Delfim F. M. Torres

The aim of this notes is to give a concise introduction to control theory for systems governed by stochastic partial differential equations. We shall mainly focus on controllability and optimal control problems for these systems. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qi Lü , Xu Zhang

This study presents the extension of the data-driven optimal prediction approach to the dynamical system with control. The optimal prediction is used to analyze dynamical systems in which the states consist of resolved and unresolved…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Aleksandr Katrutsa , Ivan Oseledets , Sergey Utyuzhnikov

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jianxiong Ye , Lei Wang , Changzhi Wu , Jie Sun , Kok Lay Teo , Xiangyu Wang

The optimal control of problems that are constrained by partial differential equations with uncertainties and with uncertain controls is addressed. The Lagrangian that defines the problem is postulated in terms of stochastic functions, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-19 Eveline Rosseel , Garth N. Wells

A quantum fluid dynamic control formulation is presented for optimally manipulating atomic and molecular systems. In quantum fluid dynamic the control quantum system is expressed in terms of the probability density and the quantum current.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bijoy K. Dey , Herschel Rabitz , Attila Askar

In this paper, we investigate the optimal control problem for systems driven by mixed fractional Brownian motion (including a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$ and the standard Brownian motion). By using Malliavin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Yuhang Li , Yuecai Han

Invariant conditions for conformable fractional problems of the calculus of variations under the presence of external forces in the dynamics are studied. Depending on the type of transformations considered, different necessary conditions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Matheus J. Lazo , Delfim F. M. Torres

Research on mobile manipulation systems that physically interact with humans has expanded rapidly in recent years, opening the way to tasks which could not be performed using fixed-base manipulators. Within this context, developing suitable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Davide Tebaldi , Niccolò Paradisi , Fabio Pini , Luigi Biagiotti

Trajectory planning in dense, interactive traffic scenarios presents significant challenges for autonomous vehicles, primarily due to the uncertainty of human driver behavior and the non-convex nature of collision avoidance constraints.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Erik Börve , Nikolce Murgovski , Leo Laine

Physical Human-Machine Interaction plays a pivotal role in facilitating collaboration across various domains. When designing appropriate model-based controllers to assist a human in the interaction, the accuracy of the human model is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Sean Kille , Paul Leibold , Philipp Karg , Balint Varga , Sören Hohmann

Though switched dynamical systems have shown great utility in modeling a variety of physical phenomena, the construction of an optimal control of such systems has proven difficult since it demands some type of optimal mode scheduling. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Ramanarayan Vasudevan , Humberto Gonzalez , Ruzena Bajcsy , S. Shankar Sastry

We propose and analyze a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the pointwise tracking optimal control problem of the Stokes equations. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the minimization of a cost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Alejandro Allendes , Francisco Fuica , Enrique Otárola , Daniel Quero