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This paper develops numerical methods for optimal control of mechanical systems in the Lagrangian setting. It extends the theory of discrete mechanics to enable the solutions of optimal control problems through the discretization of…
In this work, we investigate the approximate controllability of a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with Robin boundary conditions. The degeneracy occurs at one endpoint of the spatial domain, and we apply an impulsive…
We analyze a fully discrete scheme based on the discontinuous (in time) Galerkin approach, which is combined with conforming finite element subspaces in space, for the distributed optimal control problem of the three-dimensional…
The present work extends known finite-dimensional constrained optimal control realizations to the realm of well-posed regular linear infinite-dimensional systems modelled by partial differential equations. The structure-preserving…
This paper studies unique continuation for weakly degenerate parabolic equations in one space dimension. A new Carleman estimate of local type is obtained to deduce that all solutions that vanish on the degeneracy set, together with their…
This paper studies the boundary feedback stabilization of a class of diagonal infinite-dimensional boundary control systems. In the studied setting, the boundary control input is subject to a constant delay while the open loop system might…
The purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls in infinite dimensions. The control system is governed by a stochastic evolution equation, in which both drift and…
In this paper, we are concerned with local controllability properties of degenerate parabolic equations in bounded domains that evolve in time. More precisely, we deal with the exact controllability to a positive trajectory of a…
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…
Numerical aspects are investigated in ultra-large-scale electronic structure calculation. Accuracy control methods in process (molecular-dynamics) calculation are focused. Flexible control methods are proposed so as to control variational…
We investigate how dynamical decoupling methods may be used to manipulate the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. These methods consist of sequences of external control operations designed to induce a desired dynamics. The systems…
This paper interprets the stabilized finite element method via residual minimization as a variational multiscale method. We approximate the solution to the partial differential equations using two discrete spaces that we build on a…
This paper focuses on switching event-triggered output feedback control for a class of parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems subject to unknown nonlinearities and external bounded disturbance. Initially, the PDE systems is…
The proximal Galerkin finite element method is a high-order, low-iteration complexity, nonlinear numerical method that preserves the geometric and algebraic structure of point-wise bound constraints in infinite-dimensional function spaces.…
We consider an optimal control problem constrained by a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) with Robin boundary conditions. We use a well-posed space-time variational formulation in Lebesgue--Bochner spaces with minimal…
We propose a new controllability property for linear time varying control systems in finite dimension: the nonuniform complete controllability, which is halfway between the classical Kalman's properties of complete controllability and…
We show that Boundary Control method, a method for hyperbolic inverse problems, is also capable of dealing directly with certain classes of elliptic and parabolic Inverse Boundary Value Problems; thus pointing towards Boundary Control…
This work is devoted to the design of boundary controls of physical systems that are described by semilinear hyperbolic balance laws. A computational framework is presented that yields sufficient conditions for a boundary control to steer…
This work presents and analyzes space-time finite element methods on fully unstructured simplicial space-time meshes for the numerical solution of parabolic optimal control problems. Using Babu\v{s}ka's theorem, we show well-posedness of…
The paper concerns the theory of parabolic equations on a broad class of closed subsets of Euclidean space possessing a kind of tangent structure. A necessary framework for considering evolutionary problems is developed, and fundamental…