5 papers
Control protocols for harmonically confined run-and-tumble particles
Marco Baldovin, Alessandro Manacorda
Run-and-tumble particles constitute one of the simplest models of self-propelled active matter, and provide an ideal playground to the understanding of out-of-equilibrium systems.…
Optimal Control of an Electromechanical Energy Harvester
Dario Lucente, Alessandro Manacorda, Andrea Plati +2
Many techniques originally developed in the context of deterministic control theory have been recently applied to the quest for optimal protocols in stochastic processes. Given a s…
Optimal control of levitated nanoparticles through finite-stiffness confinement
Marco Baldovin, Ines Ben Yedder, Carlos A. Plata +4
Optimal control of levitated nanoparticles subjected to thermal fluctuations is a challenging problem, both theoretically and experimentally. In this Letter, we compute the time-de…
Control of friction: shortcuts and optimization for the rate- and state-variable equation
Andrea Plati, Alberto Petri, Marco Baldovin
Frictional forces are a key ingredient of any physical description of the macroscopic world, as they account for the phenomena causing transformation of mechanical energy into heat…
Minimal work protocols for inertial particles in non-harmonic traps
Julia Sanders, Marco Baldovin, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
Progress in miniaturized technology allows us to control physical systems at nanoscale with remarkable precision. Experimental advancements have sparked interest in control problem…