ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

Variational approach to some optimization control problems

Authors 1

Affiliations

  1. 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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Pages:
83-94
Main language of publication
English
Published
1995
Exact and natural sciences