Stratifiable families of extremals and sufficient conditions for optimality in optimal control problems

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 345-370

  Ledzewicz, U ^a   Nowakowski, A ^b   Schattler H ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

field theory; method of characteristics; Optimal control; singularities; strong local minima

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONDITION FOR OPTIMALITY; EXTREMAL; FIELD THEORY; FLOW MAPS; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; MINIMAL VALUE; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; SINGULARITY; STRONG LOCAL MINIMA;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 4844225236     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOTA.0000042525.50701.9a     Document Type: Article

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