The aim of this paper is to give a general idea to state optimality conditions of control problems in the following form: ${\displaystyle \underset{{\displaystyle (u,v)\in {𝒰}_{ad}}}{inf}{\int }_0^{1}f\left(t,u\left({\theta }_v\left(t\right)\right),u^{\text{'}}\left(t\right),v\left(t\right)\right)\mathrm{d}t}$, (1) where ${𝒰}_{ad}$ is a set of admissible controls and ${\theta }_v$ is the solution of the following equation: $\{\frac{\mathrm{d}\theta \left(t\right)}{\mathrm{d}t}=g(t,\theta \left(t\right),v\left(t\right)),t\in [0,1]$ ; ${\displaystyle \theta \left(0\right)={\theta }_0,\theta \left(t\right)\in [0,1]\forall t}$. (2). The results are nonlocal and new.

In this paper we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of mild solutions and extremal mild solutions for some densely defined impulsive semilinear neutral functional differential inclusions in separable Banach spaces. We rely on a fixed point theorem for the sum of completely continuous and contraction operators.

In this paper, impulsive stabilization of high-order nonlinear retarded differential equations is investigated by using Lyapunov functions and some analysis methods. Our results show that several non-impulsive unstable systems can be stabilized by imposition of impulsive controls. Some recent results are extended and improved. An example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control and stabilization methods.

Sufficient conditions for controllability of neutral functional integrodifferential systems in Banach spaces with initial condition in the phase space are established. The results are obtained by using the Schauder fixed point theorem. An example is provided to illustrate the theory.

This paper is mainly concerned with existence of mild solutions and optimal controls for nonlinear delay integrodifferential systems with Caputo fractional derivative in infinite-dimensional spaces. We do not assume that the relevant strongly continuous semigroup is compact.

An almost-Riemannian structure on a surface is a generalized Riemannian structure whose local orthonormal frames are given by Lie bracket generating pairs of vector fields that can become collinear. The distribution generated locally by orthonormal frames has maximal rank at almost every point of the surface, but in general it has rank 1 on a nonempty set which is generically a smooth curve. In this paper we provide a short introduction to 2-dimensional almost-Riemannian geometry highlighting its...

This paper focuses on the problem of uniform asymptotic stability of a class of linear neutral systems including some constant delays and time-varying cone-bounded nonlinearities. Sufficient stability conditions are derived by taking into account the weighting factors describing the nonlinearities. The proposed results are applied to the stability analysis of a class of lossless transmission line models.

The aim of this paper is to study problems of the form: $in{f}_{(u\in V)}J\left(u\right)$ with $J\left(u\right):={\int }_0^{1}L(s,y_u\left(s\right),u\left(s\right))\mathrm{d}s+g\left(y_u\left(1\right)\right)$ where V is a set of admissible controls and yu is the solution of the Cauchy problem: $\dot{x}\left(t\right)=\langle f(.,x(.)),{\nu }_t\rangle +u\left(t\right),t\in (0,1)$, $x\left(0\right)=x_0$ and each ${\nu }_t$ is a nonnegative measure with support in [0,t]. After studying the Cauchy problem, we establish existence of minimizers, optimality conditions (in particular in the form of a nonlocal version of the Pontryagin principle) and prove some regularity results. We also consider the more general case where the control also enters the dynamics...

We consider a neutral type operator differential inclusion and apply the topological degree theory for condensing multivalued maps to justify the question of existence of its periodic solution. By using the averaging method, we apply the abstract result to an inclusion with a small parameter. As example, we consider a delay control system with the distributed control.

This paper is concerned with the problem of global state regulation by output feedback for large-scale uncertain nonlinear systems with time delays in the states and inputs. The systems are assumed to be bounded by a more general form than a class of feedforward systems satisfying a linear growth condition in the unmeasurable states multiplying by unknown growth rates and continuous functions of the inputs or delayed inputs. Using the dynamic gain scaling technique and choosing the appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii...