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Optimal Control Of A Perturbed Sweeping Process With Applications To The Crowd Motion Model, Tan Hoang Cao

Wayne State University Dissertations

The dissertation is devoted to the study and applications of a new class of optimal control problems governed by a perturbed sweeping process of the hysteresis type with control functions acting in both play-and-stop operator and additive perturbations. Such control problems can be reduced to optimization of discontinuous and unbounded dif- ferential inclusions with pointwise state constraints, which are immensely challenging in control theory and prevent employing conventional variation techniques to derive neces- sary optimality conditions. We develop the method of discrete approximations married with appropriate generalized differential tools of modern variational analysis to overcome principal difficulties in passing to …

Variational Analysis And Optimal Control Of The Sweeping Process, Hoang Dinh Nguyen

Wayne State University Dissertations

We formulate and study an optimal control problem for the sweeping(Moreau) process, where control functions enter the moving sweeping

set. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in the literature devoted to optimal control of the sweeping process. We first establish an existence theorem of optimal solutions and then derive necessary optimality conditions for this optimal control problem of a new type, where the dynamics is governed by discontinuous differential inclusions with variable right-hand sides. Our approach to necessary optimality conditions is based on the method of discrete approximations and advanced tools of variational analysis and …