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On the Noether Invariance Principle for Constrained Optimal Control Problems

Optimization and Control 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We obtain a generalization of Noether's invariance principle for optimal control problems with equality and inequality state-input constraints. The result relates the invariance properties of the problems with the existence of conserved quantities along the constrained Pontryagin extremals. A result of this kind was posed as an open question by Vladimir Tikhomirov, in 1986.

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@article{arxiv.math/0407409,
  title  = {On the Noether Invariance Principle for Constrained Optimal Control Problems},
  author = {Delfim F. M. Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0407409},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

To be presented at the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Corfu, Greece, August 17-19, 2004. Accepted for publication in the journal WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics