Co-contraction embodies uncertainty: An optimal feedforward strategy for robust motor control

B Berret, D Verdel, E Burdet, F Jean - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Despite our environment often being uncertain, we generally manage to generate stable
motor behaviors. While reactive control plays a major role in this achievement, proactive …

Data-driven approximations of dynamical systems operators for control

E Kaiser, JN Kutz, SL Brunton - The Koopman operator in systems and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Koopman and Perron Frobenius transport operators are fundamentally
changing how we approach dynamical systems, providing linear representations for even …

Moment quantization of inhomogeneous spin ensembles

JS Li, W Zhang, YH Kuan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
Robust excitation of a large spin ensemble is a long-standing problem in the field of
quantum information science and engineering and presents a grand challenge in quantum …

An adaptive sampling augmented Lagrangian method for stochastic optimization with deterministic constraints

R Bollapragada, C Karamanli, B Keith… - … & Mathematics with …, 2023 - Elsevier
The primary goal of this paper is to provide an efficient solution algorithm based on the
augmented Lagrangian framework for optimization problems with a stochastic objective …

Optimal control of ensembles of dynamical systems

A Scagliotti - ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of …, 2023 - esaim-cocv.org
In this paper we consider the problem of the optimal control of an ensemble of affine-control
systems. After proving the well-posedness of the minimization problem under examination …

Optimality conditions for convex stochastic optimization problems in Banach spaces with almost sure state constraints

C Geiersbach, W Wollner - SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2021 - SIAM
We analyze a convex stochastic optimization problem where the state is assumed to belong
to the Bochner space of essentially bounded random variables with images in a reflexive …

A new scalable algorithm for computational optimal control under uncertainty

P Lambrianides, Q Gong, D Venturi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We address the design of optimal control strategies for high-dimensional stochastic
dynamical systems. Such systems may be deterministic nonlinear systems evolving from …

On separating points for ensemble controllability

JS Li, W Zhang, L Tie - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2020 - SIAM
Recent years have witnessed a wave of research activities in systems science toward the
study of population systems. The driving force behind this shift was geared by numerous …

Fixed-endpoint optimal control of bilinear ensemble systems

S Wang, JS Li - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2017 - SIAM
Optimal control of bilinear systems has been a well-studied subject in the area of
mathematical control. However, techniques for solving emerging optimal control problems …

Consistency of Monte Carlo estimators for risk-neutral PDE-constrained optimization

J Milz - Applied Mathematics & Optimization, 2023 - Springer
We apply the sample average approximation (SAA) method to risk-neutral optimization
problems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with random inputs …