Optimal control and applications to aerospace: some results and challenges

E Trélat - Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2012 - Springer
This article surveys the usual techniques of nonlinear optimal control such as the Pontryagin
Maximum Principle and the conjugate point theory, and how they can be implemented …

[HTML][HTML] The turnpike property in finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal control

E Trélat, E Zuazua - Journal of Differential Equations, 2015 - Elsevier
Turnpike properties have been established long time ago in finite-dimensional optimal
control problems arising in econometry. They refer to the fact that, under quite general …

Gusto: Guaranteed sequential trajectory optimization via sequential convex programming

R Bonalli, A Cauligi, A Bylard… - … conference on robotics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sequential Convex Programming (SCP) has recently seen a surge of interest as a tool for
trajectory optimization. However, most available methods lack rigorous performance …

[BOOK][B] Control of nonholonomic systems: from sub-Riemannian geometry to motion planning

F Jean - 2014 - books.google.com
Nonholonomic systems are control systems which depend linearly on the control. Their
underlying geometry is the sub-Riemannian geometry, which plays for these systems the …

An algorithmic guide for finite-dimensional optimal control problems

JB Caillau, R Ferretti, E Trélat, H Zidani - Handbook of Numerical Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
We survey the main numerical techniques for finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal control.
The chapter is written as a guide to practitioners who wish to get rapidly acquainted with the …

Smooth regularization of bang-bang optimal control problems

C Silva, E Trélat - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consider the minimal time control problem for a single-input control-affine system ẋ= X (x)+
u 1 Y 1 (x) in R n, where the scalar control u 1 (·) satisfies the constraint lu 1 (·) l≤. When …

A closer look at quantum control landscapes and their implication for control optimization

P De Fouquieres, SG Schirmer - Infinite dimensional analysis …, 2013 - World Scientific
The control landscape for various canonical quantum control problems is considered. For
the class of pure-state transfer problems, analysis of the fidelity as a functional over the …

Mass transportation on sub-Riemannian manifolds

A Figalli, L Rifford - Geometric and functional analysis, 2010 - Springer
We study the optimal transport problem in sub-Riemannian manifolds where the cost
function is given by the square of the sub-Riemannian distance. Under appropriate …

Refined analysis of asymptotically-optimal kinodynamic planning in the state-cost space

M Kleinbort, E Granados, K Solovey… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel analysis of AO-RRT: a tree-based planner for motion planning with
kinodynamic constraints, originally described by Hauser and Zhou (AO-X, 2016). AO-RRT …

Geometric optimal control and applications to aerospace

J Zhu, E Trélat, M Cerf - Pacific Journal of Mathematics for Industry, 2017 - Springer
This article deals with applications of optimal control to aerospace problems with a focus on
modern geometric optimal control tools and numerical continuation techniques. Geometric …