economists were interested in economic stabilization policies as early as the 1930’s but the formal applications of stability theory from the classical control theory to economic analysis appeared in the early 1950’s when a number of control engineers actively collaborated with economists on economic stability and feedback mechanisms. the theory of optimal control resulting from the contributio...

the aim of this work is to investigate the variational discretization and mixed finite element methods for optimal control problem governed by semi linear parabolic equations with integral constraint. the state and co-state are approximated by the lowest order raviart-thomas mixed finite element spaces and the control is not discreted. optimal error estimates in l2 are established for the state...

The optimal path planning of cooperative manipulators is studied in the present research. Optimal Control Theory is employed to calculate the optimal path of each joint choosing an appropriate index of the system to be minimized and taking the kinematics equations as the constraints. The formulation has been derived using Pontryagin Minimum Principle and results in a Two Point Boundary Value Pr...

first riccati equation with matrix variable coefficients, arising in optimal and robust control approach, is considered. an analytical approximation of the solution of nonlinear differential riccati equation is investigated using the adomian decomposition method. an application in optimal control is presented. the solution in different order of approximations and different methods of approximat...

We study problems of boundary controllability with minimal L p-norm (p ∈ [2, ∞]) for the one-dimensional wave equation, where the state is controlled at both boundaries through Dirichlet or Neumann conditions. The problem is to reach a given terminal state and velocity in a given finite time, while minimizing the L p-norm of the controls. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the solv...