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Symbolic Computation of Variational Symmetries in Optimal Control

Optimization and Control 2007-10-14 v1

Abstract

We use a computer algebra system to compute, in an efficient way, optimal control variational symmetries up to a gauge term. The symmetries are then used to obtain families of Noether's first integrals, possibly in the presence of nonconservative external forces. As an application, we obtain eight independent first integrals for the sub-Riemannian nilpotent problem (2,3,5,8).

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@article{arxiv.math/0604072,
  title  = {Symbolic Computation of Variational Symmetries in Optimal Control},
  author = {Paulo D. F. Gouveia and Delfim F. M. Torres and Eugenio A. M. Rocha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0604072},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Presented at the 4th Junior European Meeting on "Control and Optimization", Bialystok Technical University, Bialystok, Poland, 11-14 September 2005. Accepted (24-Feb-2006) to Control & Cybernetics