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Retraction maps in optimal control of nonholonomic systems

Numerical Analysis 2025-04-02 v1 Numerical Analysis Differential Geometry Optimization and Control

Abstract

In this paper, we compare the performance of different numerical schemes in approximating Pontryagin's Maximum Principle's necessary conditions for the optimal control of nonholonomic systems. Retraction maps are used as a seed to construct geometric integrators for the corresponding Hamilton equations. First, we obtain an intrinsic formulation of a discretization map on a distribution D\mathcal{D}. Then, we illustrate this construction on a particular example for which the performance of different symplectic integrators is examined and compared with that of non-symplectic integrators.

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@article{arxiv.2504.00808,
  title  = {Retraction maps in optimal control of nonholonomic systems},
  author = {Alexandre Anahory Simoes and María Barbero Liñán and Anthony Bloch and Leonardo Colombo and David Martín de Diego},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.00808},
  year   = {2025}
}

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