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This work introduces a novel path-following control strategy inspired by the famous two-body problem, aiming to stabilize any Keplerian orbit. Utilizing insights from the mathematical structure of the two-body problem, we derive a robust…

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In this article a stabilizing feedback control is computed for a semilinear parabolic partial differential equation utilizing a nonlinear model predictive (NMPC) method. In each level of the NMPC algorithm the finite time horizon open loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Alessandro Alla , Stefan Volkwein

This paper addresses the spatiotemporal mismatch in multi-agent distribution tracking within time-varying environments. While recent advancements in Density-Driven Optimal Control (D$^2$OC) have enabled finite-time distribution matching…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of regulating the outlet pressure of gas flowing through a pipeline subject to uncertain and variable outlet flow. Gas flow through a pipe is modeled using the coupled isothermal Euler equations, with…

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We study the problem of optimal inside control of an SPDE (a stochastic evolution equation) driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure. Our optimal control problem is new in two ways: (i) The controller has access to inside…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Olfa Draouil , Bernt Øksendal

We analyze the state constrained inverse Stefan type parabolic free boundary problem as an optimal control problem in the Sobolev-Besov spaces framework. Boundary heat flux, density of heat sources, and free boundary are components of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Ugur G. Abdulla , Jonathan Goldfarb , Evan Cosgrove , Curtis Earl

We propose a model-based approach to design feedback policies for dexterous robotic manipulation. The manipulation problem is formulated as reaching the target region from an initial state for some non-smooth nonlinear system. First, we use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Weiqiao Han , Russ Tedrake

Stabilization of a coupled system consisting of a parabolic partial differential equation and an elliptic partial differential equation is considered. Even in the situation when the parabolic equation is exponentially stable on its own, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Ala' Alalabi , Kirsten Morris

We consider output trajectory tracking for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems whose internal dynamics may be modelled by infinite-dimensional systems which are bounded-input, bounded-output stable. We describe under which conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Thomas Berger , Marc Puche , Felix Schwenninger

This paper addresses the derivation of generic and tractable sufficient conditions ensuring the stability of a coupled system composed of a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) and a finite-dimensional linear time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur

Material parameters such as thermal diffusivity govern how microstructural fields evolve during processing, but difficult to measure directly. The Stability-Aware Frozen Euler Physics-Informed Tracking for Continuum Mechanics (SAFE-PIT-CM),…

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High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features by aligning elements of the computational mesh with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Tianci Huang , Charles Naudet , Matthew J. Zahr

This paper introduces and analyses a continuous optimization approach to solve optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and tracking type objectives. Our aim is to determine control or input functions, and…

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This paper proposes a backstepping boundary control design for robust stabilization of linear first-order coupled hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with Markov-jumping parameters. The PDE system consists of 4 X 4 coupled…

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We investigate optimal control of dynamical systems which are affine, i.e., linear in control, but nonlinear in state. The control task is to enforce the system state to follow a prescribed desired trajectory as closely as possible, a task…

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We study the nonlocal Stefan problem, where the phase transition is described by a nonlocal diffusion as well as the change of enthalpy functions. By using a stochastic optimization approach introduced for the local case, we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Raymond Chu , Inwon Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Kyeongsik Nam

The general context of this work is the feedback control of an infinite-dimensional system so that the closed-loop system satisfies a fading-memory property and achieves the setpoint tracking of a given reference signal. More specifically,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Hugo Lhachemi , Christophe Prieur , Emmanuel Trélat

This work is motivated by the engineering challenge of suppressing vibrations in turbine blades of aero engines, which often operate under extreme thermal conditions and high-Mach aerodynamic environments that give rise to complex vibration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chengyi Wang , Ji Wang

Perfect tracking control for real-world Euler-Lagrange systems is challenging due to uncertainties in the system model and external disturbances. The magnitude of the tracking error can be reduced either by increasing the feedback gains or…

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