  Vector or pest control is essential to reduce the risk of vector-borne
diseases or crop losses. Among the available biological control tools, the
Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is one of the most promising. However,
SIT-control campaigns must be carefully planned in advance in order to render
desirable outcomes. In this paper, we design SIT-control intervention programs
that can avoid the real-time monitoring of the wild population and require to
mass-rear a minimal overall number of sterile insects, in order to induce a
local elimination of the wild population in the shortest time. Continuous-time
release programs are obtained by applying an optimal control approach, and then
laying the groundwork of more practical SIT-control programs consisting of
periodic impulsive releases.
