Commands - Contrôle, Optimisation, Modèles, Méthodes et Applications pour les Systèmes Dynamiques non linéaires

News :

• Spring-school and Workshop "ANOC - Applied and Numerical Optimal Control", April 23-27 2012 
• Kick-off Meeting, ITN Sadco, March 3-4 2011
• Industrial workshop "Aerospace Applications of control and optimization", organized in collaboration with Eads-Astrium. 

• Athena Picarelli started his PhD in November 2011. "First and second order Hamilton-Jacobi equations for state-constrained control problems", supervisor: H. Zidani and O. Bokanowski,  Marie-Curie grant (ITN SADCO)
• Cristopher Hermosilla started his PhD in November 2011, "Feedback controls and optimal trajectories", supervisor: H. Zidani and F. Jean,  Marie-Curie grant (ITN SADC0)

• A. Desilles, E. Cruck, and H. Zidani: Collision avoidance analysis for a UAV. Research report, Mar 2012
• A. Altarovici, O. Bokanowski, and H. Zidani: A general Hamilton-Jacobi framework for nonlinear state-constrained control problems, Inria research report, Dec. 2011
• N. Forcadel, Z. Rao, H. Zidani: State-constrained optimal control problems of impulsive differential equations,  Inria research report, Dec. 2011
• J.F. Bonnans, Z. Cen, and Th. Christel: Sensitivity analysis of energy contracts by stochastic programming techniques. Rapport de Recherche INRIA, to appear, March 2011.
• J.F. Bonnans, N. Osmolovskii: Characterization of a local quadratic growth of the Hamiltonian for control constrained optimal control problems. Rapport de Recherche INRIA 7570, March 2011.

• A. Briani, F. Camilli, and H. Zidani:  Approximation schemes for monotone systems of nonlinear second order partial differential equations: convergence result and error estimate, Differential Equations and Applications, vol. 4, pp. 297--317, 2012
• O. Bokanowski, N. Forcadel, and H. Zidani: Deterministic state constrained optimal control problems without controllability assumptions, ESAIM: COCV, vol. 17(4), pp. 995-215, 2011

About COMMANDS team:

COMMANDS is acronyme of Control, Optimization, Models, Methods and Applications for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. This joint project team Inria-CMAP-ENSTA started in January 2008. 

The team is hosted in two places: Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau), and ENSTA ParisTech (Paris). Both are engineering schools with high level students, many of which continue as PhD students or researchers. The group in Palaiseau is part of CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées de l'Ecole Polytechnique), the group in ENSTA ParisTech is part of UMA (Unité de Mathématiques Appliquées). This offers two high level environments in applied mathematics and several opportunities with the other teams devoted to numerical analysis, stochastics and finance, and image processing.

Both groups are involved in teaching in these engineering schools and have therefore many contacts with the students. The full-time permanent members of the team are located either in CMAP (F. Bonnans and P. Martinon) or in Ensta (H. Zidani).  In a few years Ensta will move to Palaiseau, on the Ecole Polytechnique campus.