In this paper we present an energy shaping control law for set-point regulation of the Chaplygin sleigh. It is well known that nonholonomic mechanical systems cannot be asymptotically stabilised using smooth control laws as they do no satisfy Brockett’s necessary condition for smooth stabilisation. Here, we propose a discontinuous control law that can be seen as a potential energy shaping and d...

We consider a seller who owns two capacity constrained resources and markets two products (components) corresponding to these resources as well as a bundle comprising the two components. In an environment where all customers agree that one of the two components is of higher quality than the other and that the bundle is of the highest quality, we derive the seller’s optimal bundling strategy. We...

Some stochastic control systems that are described by stochastic differential equations with a fractional Brownian motion are considered. The solutions of these systems are defined by weak solutions. These weak solutions are obtained by the transformation of the measure for a fractional Brownian motion by a Radon-Nikodym derivative. This weak solution approach is used to solve a control problem...

We investigate a class of fractional neutral evolution equations on Banach spaces involving Caputo derivatives. Main results establish conditions for the controllability fractional-order system and existence solution to an optimal control problem minimum energy. The are proved with help fixed-point semigroup theories.

In this article, Ritz approximation have been employed to obtain the numerical solutions of a class of the fractional optimal control problems based on the Caputo fractional derivative. Using polynomial basis functions, we obtain a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. This nonlinear system of equation is solved and the coefficients of basis polynomial are derived. The convergence of the num...

This paper presents a fractional mathematical model of a one-dimensional phase-change problem (Stefan problem) with a variable latent-heat (a power function of position). This model includes space–time fractional derivatives in the Caputo sense and time-dependent surface-heat flux. An approximate solution of this model is obtained by using the optimal homotopy asymptotic method to find the solu...

this paper presents optimal control method to path planning of mobile robots with flexible joints. dynamic equations are derived and additional kinematic constraints are used to solve the extra dofs arose from base mobility. then with modeling the elasticity at each joint as a linear torsinal spring, the set of equations are formed. the hamiltonian function is formed and the necessary condition...

In this paper, we study numerical solutions of the time-space fractional wave equation in a complex domain. The fractional time is taken in the sense of the RiemannLiouville differential operator while the fractional space is assumed in the SrivastavaOwa differential operator. Here we employ some properties of the univalent functions in the unit disk to determine the upper bound of this solutio...