This chapter studies a singular case of Optimal Control Problems(OCPs) governed by a class of switched control systems. We proposea new mathematical formalism for this type of switched dynamic systemsand study OCPs with a ...

In this paper, a new hybrid optimization algorithm which combines the standard Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) with Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm used the advantages ...

The objective of this work is to make the numerical analysis, through the finite element method with Lagrange's triangles of type 1, of a continuous optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality ...

It is well-known in optimal control theory that the maximum principle, in general, furnishes only necessary optimality conditions for an admissible process to be an optimal one. It is also well-known that if a process ...

Population based metaheuristic can benefit from explicit parallelization in order to address complex numerical optimization problems. Typical realistic problems usually involve non-linear functions and many constraints, ...

Despite numerous experimental and theoretical studies reported in the literature, surface micro-texturing to control friction and wear in lubricated tribo-contacts is still in the trial-and-error phase. The tribological ...

The strut-and-tie models are widely used in certain types of structural elements in reinforced concrete and in regions with complexity of the stress state, called regions D, where the distribution of deformations in the ...