Title
Free-endpoint optimal control of inhomogeneous bilinear ensemble systems.
Abstract
Optimal control of bilinear systems has been a well-studied subject in the areas of mathematical and computational optimal control. However, effective methods for solving emerging optimal control problems involving an ensemble of deterministic or stochastic bilinear systems are underdeveloped. These burgeoning problems arise in diverse applications from quantum control and molecular imaging to neuroscience. In this work, we develop an iterative method to find optimal controls for an inhomogeneous bilinear ensemble system with free-endpoint conditions. The central idea is to represent the bilinear ensemble system at each iteration as a time-varying linear ensemble system, and then solve it in an iterative manner. We analyze convergence of the iterative procedure and discuss optimality of the convergent solutions. The method is directly applicable to solve the same class of optimal control problems involving a stochastic bilinear ensemble system driven by independent additive noise processes. We demonstrate the robustness and applicability of the developed iterative method through practical control designs in neuroscience and quantum control.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.automatica.2018.05.009
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ensemble control,Bilinear systems,Iterative method
Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,Optimal control,Control theory,Quantum control,Iterative method,Robustness (computer science),Ensemble systems,System of bilinear equations,Mathematics,Bilinear interpolation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
95
1
0005-1098
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuo Wang130354.05
Shin Li Jr.211219.45