Model-based gas source localization strategy for a cooperative multi-robot system—A probabilistic approach and experimental validation incorporating physical …

T Wiedemann, D Shutin, AJ Lilienthal - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Sampling gas distributions by robotic platforms in order to find gas sources is an appealing
approach to alleviate threats for a human operator. Different sampling strategies for robotic …

A priori error analysis for finite element approximation of parabolic optimal control problems with pointwise control

W Gong, M Hinze, Z Zhou - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2014 - SIAM
We consider finite element approximations of parabolic control problems with pointwise
control. The state equation exhibits low regularity due to the control imposed pointwisely; …

Optimal a priori error estimates of parabolic optimal control problems with pointwise control

D Leykekhman, B Vexler - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2013 - SIAM
In this paper we consider a parabolic optimal control problem with a pointwise (Dirac type)
control in space, but variable in time, in two space dimensions. To approximate the problem …

Multi-agent exploration of spatial dynamical processes under sparsity constraints

T Wiedemann, C Manss, D Shutin - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2018 - Springer
This paper addresses the development of an efficient information gathering and exploration
strategy for robotic missions when a high level of autonomy is expected. A multi-agent …

Discontinuous Galerkin approximations to elliptic and parabolic problems with a Dirac line source

R Masri, B Shen, B Riviere - ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and …, 2023 - esaim-m2an.org
The analyses of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin methods of any order k for solving
elliptic and parabolic problems with Dirac line sources are presented. For the steady state …

Some applications of weighted norm inequalities to the error analysis of PDE-constrained optimization problems

H Antil, E Otárola, AJ Salgado - IMA Journal of Numerical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this work is to illustrate how the theory of Muckenhoupt weights,
Muckenhoupt-weighted Sobolev spaces and the corresponding weighted norm inequalities …

Finite element approximations of parabolic optimal control problems with controls acting on a lower dimensional manifold

W Gong, N Yan - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2016 - SIAM
This paper is devoted to the study of finite element approximations to parabolic optimal
control problems with controls acting on a lower dimensional manifold. The manifold can be …

A priori error estimates for three dimensional parabolic optimal control problems with pointwise control

D Leykekhman, B Vexler - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2016 - SIAM
In this paper we provide an a priori error analysis for parabolic optimal control problems with
a pointwise (Dirac-type) control in space on three-dimensional domains. The two …

Analysis and approximation to parabolic optimal control problems with measure-valued controls in time

W Gong, D Liang - ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of …, 2025 - esaim-cocv.org
In this paper, we investigate an optimal control problem governed by parabolic equations
with measure-valued controls over time. We establish the well-posedness of the optimal …

Maximal discrete sparsity in parabolic optimal control with measures

E Herberg, M Hinze, H Schumacher - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10549, 2018 - arxiv.org
We consider variational discretization of a parabolic optimal control problem governed by
space-time measure controls. For the state discretization we use a Petrov-Galerkin method …