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Time-Optimal Trajectories of Generic Control-Affine Systems Have at Worst Iterated Fuller Singularities

Optimization and Control 2018-05-23 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider in this paper the regularity problem for time-optimal trajectories of a single-input control-affine system on a n-dimensional manifold. We prove that, under generic conditions on the drift and the controlled vector field, any control u associated with an optimal trajectory is smooth out of a countable set of times. More precisely, there exists an integer K, only depending on the dimension n, such that the non-smoothness set of u is made of isolated points, accumulations of isolated points, and so on up to K-th order iterated accumulations.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10055,
  title  = {Time-Optimal Trajectories of Generic Control-Affine Systems Have at Worst Iterated Fuller Singularities},
  author = {Francesco Boarotto and Mario Sigalotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10055},
  year   = {2018}
}