New Frontiers for Optimal Control Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Optimal control theory represents a powerful instrument to determine the best strategy to modify the behavior of a system satisfying operative constraints. While the classical theory is well established, the variety of applications requires continuous improvements in the methodologies and in the consequent numerical implementations.

With the recent improved interest in some modern research fields, optimal control techniques are increasing the range of their effective application, spanning from aerospace to automotive, from process control to fault detection, from traffic control to energy distribution, extending their capabilities to communications, economics, social sciences, life sciences, and human health.

The heterogeneous scenario in which optimal control strategies can be fruitfully adopted, involving various modeling techniques as well as different mathematical tools, brings forth the necessity of introducing new potentialities in the classical theory, thus also producing interesting improvements in the theoretical framework, in the numerical solutions, and in the implementation techniques.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the latest developments in optimal control, both from a methodological and application point of view, with particular attention to the new research and development areas in which optimal control techniques can provide promising solutions.

Original research as well as reviews papers are welcome.

Topics of interest include all the modern applications in which optimal control approaches are suitably and successfully introduced.

Prof. Paolo Di Giamberardino
Prof. Daniela Iacoviello
Guest Editors

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