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Optimality of broken extremals

Optimization and Control 2017-09-25 v1

Abstract

In this paper we analyse the optimality of broken Pontryagin extremal for an n-dimensional affine control system with a control parameter, taking values in a k- dimensional closed ball. We prove the optimality of broken normal extremals when n = 3 and the controllable vector fields form a contact distribution, and when the Lie algebra of the controllable fields is locally orthogonal to the singular locus and the drift does not belong to it. Moreover, if k = 2, we show the optimality of any broken extremal even abnormal when the controllable fields do not form a contact distribution in the point of singularity.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07775,
  title  = {Optimality of broken extremals},
  author = {Andrei A. Agrachev and Carolina Biolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07775},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1610.06755

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