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We introduce and analyze the concept of tracking controllability, where the objective is for the state of a control system, or some projection thereof, to follow a given trajectory within a specified time horizon. By leveraging duality, we characterize tracking controllability through a non-standard observability inequality for the adjoint system. This characterization facilitates the development of a systematic approach for constructing controls with minimal norm. However, achieving such an observability property is challenging. To address this, we utilize the classical Brunovsk\'y canonical form for control systems, specifically focusing on the case of scalar controls. Our findings reveal that tracking control inherently involves a loss of regularity in the controls. This phenomenon is highly sensitive to the system's structure and the interaction between the projection to be tracked and the system.

Our main contribution in this article is the achievement of the turnpike property in its integral and exponential forms for parameter-dependent systems with averaged observations in the cost functional. Namely, under suitable assumptions with respect to the matrices that defined the dynamics and the cost functional, we prove that the optimal control and state for the evolutionary problem converge in average to the optimal pair of an associated stationary problem. Moreover, we characterize the closeness between these two optimal solutions, proving that over a large time interval, they are exponentially close.

We consider a fully-discrete approximations of 1-D heat equation with dynamic boundary conditions for which we provide a controllability result. The proof of this result is based on a relaxed observability inequality for the corresponding adjoint system. This is done by using a suitable Carleman estimate for such models where the discrete parameters $h$ and $\Delta t$ are connected to the one of the large Carleman parameters.

We consider averages convergence as the time-horizon goes to infinity of optimal solutions of time-dependent optimal control problems to optimal solutions of the corresponding stationary optimal control problems. Control problems play a key role in engineering, economics and sciences. To be more precise, in climate sciences, often times, relevant problems are formulated in long time scales, so that, the problem of possible asymptotic behaviors when the time-horizon goes to infinity becomes natural. Assuming that the controlled dynamics under consideration are stabilizable towards a stationary solution, the following natural question arises: Do time averages of optimal controls and trajectories converge to the stationary optimal controls and states as the time-horizon goes to infinity? This question is very closely related to the so-called turnpike property that shows that, often times, the optimal trajectory joining two points that are far apart, consists in, departing from the point of origin, rapidly getting close to the steady-state (the turnpike) to stay there most of the time, to quit it only very close to the final destination and time. In the present paper we deal with heat equations with non-zero exterior conditions (Dirichlet and nonlocal Robin) associated with the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ ($0

In this article we study the inverse problem of recovering a space-dependent coefficient of the Moore-Gibson-Thompson (MGT) equation, from knowledge of the trace of the solution on some open subset of the boundary. We obtain the Lipschitz stability for this inverse problem, and we design a convergent algorithm for the reconstruction of the unknown coefficient. The techniques used are based on Carleman inequalities for wave equations and properties of the MGT equation., Comment: New version

We study the controllability to trajectories, under positivity constraints on the control or the state, of a one-dimensional heat equation involving the fractional Laplace operator $ (-\partial_x^2)^s$ (with $0

The three concepts of exact, null and approximate controllabilities are analyzed from the exterior of the Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation associated with the fractional Laplace operator subject to the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet type exterior condition., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.08060

We consider the null controllability problem from the exterior for the one dimensional heat equation on the interval $(0,1)$ associated with the fractional Laplace operator $(-\partial_x^2)^s$, where $00$ if and only if $\frac 12

We make a complete analysis of the controllability properties from the exterior of the (possible) strong damping wave equation with the fractional Laplace operator subject to the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet type exterior condition. In the first part, we show that if $0 0$, then there is no control function $g$ such that the following system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_{tt} + (-\Delta)^{s} u + \delta(-\Delta)^{s} u_{t}=0 & \mbox{ in }\; \Omega\times(0,T),\\ u=g\chi_{\mathcal O\times (0,T)} &\mbox{ in }\; (\Omc)\times (0,T) ,\\ u(\cdot,0) = u_0, u_t(\cdot,0) = u_1 &\mbox{ in }\; \Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} is exact or null controllable at time $T>0$. In the second part, we prove that for every $\delta\ge 0$ and $00$ and $g\in \mathcal D(\mathcal O\times(0,T))$, where $\mathcal O\subset\Omc$ is any non-empty open set.