Turnpike in Lipschitz—nonlinear optimal control

Abstract

We present a new proof of the turnpike property for nonlinear optimal control problems, when the running target is a steady control-state pair of the underlying system. Our strategy combines the construction of quasi-turnpike controls via controllability, and a bootstrap argument, and does not rely on analyzing the optimality system or linearization techniques. This in turn allows us to address several optimal control problems for finite-dimensional, control-affine systems with globally Lipschitz (possibly nonsmooth) nonlinearities, without any smallness conditions on the initial data or the running target. These results are motivated by applications in machine learning through deep residual neural networks, which may be fit within our setting. We show that our methodology is applicable to controlled PDEs as well, such as the semilinear wave and heat equation with a globally Lipschitz nonlinearity, once again without any smallness assumptions.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Feb 17, 2022
Source ID
10.1088/1361-6544/ac4e61

Entities

People

  • Borjan Geshkovski
  • Carlos Esteve-yagüe
  • Darío Pighin
  • Enrique Zuazua

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • European Commission
  • German Research Foundation
  • Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Operations Research

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks