Some new regularity properties for the minimal time function

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2285-2299

  Colombo, Giovanni ^a   Marigonda, Antonio ^a   Wolenski, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functions with convex epigraph; Nonsmooth analysis; Proximally smooth and convex sets; Small time controllability

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS WITH Φ-CONVEX EPIGRAPH; NONSMOOTH ANALYSIS; PROXIMALLY SMOOTH AND Φ-CONVEX SETS; SMALL TIME CONTROLLABILITY;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751198949     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050630076     Document Type: Article

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