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Title: Optimal control of systems with intermediate phase constraints

Journal Article · · Cybernetics and Systems Analysis
OSTI ID:457595

In this paper, we derive necessary conditions of minimum for the general optimal control problem with the following characteristics: the trajectory is corrected at intermediate time instants using matching relationships; the system dynamics may vary in each time interval; the optimand functional and the functional constraints depend on the intermediate time instants, the momenta, and the phase coordinates of the trajectories. The result is derived by the methods of modern optimization theory and nonsmooth analysis. It is presented in the form of a maximum principle. The specific solution scheme for this problem has been developed in greater detail elsewhere for systems of the form x{sub i}={line_integral}{sub i}(t, x{sub i}). Much of the previous manipulations and results on the structure of the conjugate cone and the form of the directional derivatives are used also in this paper. This is legitimate because the optimized parameters and controls are independent.

OSTI ID:
457595
Journal Information:
Cybernetics and Systems Analysis, Vol. 30, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1995; TN: Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz; No. 4, 104-111(Jul-Aug 1994)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English