Schrödinger Meets Kuramoto via Feynman-Kac: Minimum Effort Distribution Steering for Noisy Nonuniform Kuramoto Oscillators

We formulate and solve the problem of finite horizon minimum control effort steering of the state probability distribution between prescribed endpoint joints for a finite population of networked noisy nonuniform Kuramoto oscillators. We consider both the first and second order stochastic Kuramoto models. For numerical solution of the associated stochastic optimal control, we propose combining certain measure-valued proximal recursions and the Feynman-Kac path integral computation. We illustrate the proposed framework via numerical examples.