ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Variational approach to some optimization control problems
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics U. Dini, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 67/A, 50134 Firenze, Italy
Abstract
This paper presents the variational approach to some optimization problems: Mayer's problem with or without constraints on the final point, local controllability of a trajectory, time-optimal problems.
Keywords
tangent vectors, variational cone, local controllability, Mayer's optimization problem
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