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Sufficient optimality conditions for optimal control problems involving isoperimetric and mixed inequality and equality constraints are derived. The main novelty of our approach is the fact that, for such problems, discontinuous and singular solutions can be detected. In other words, our result can deal with solutions for which the proposed optimal control is not continuous, but only essentially bounded, and the classical, crucial strengthened Legendre-Clebsch condition is no longer imposed.
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The authors are grateful to Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, for the support given. The first author as part of the PASPA program during a sabbatical stay at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK, and the second author for the project PAPIIT-IN113318.
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Rosenblueth, J.F., Licea, G.S. Essential Boundedness and Singularity in Optimal Control. J Dyn Control Syst 27, 87–105 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-020-09482-6
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Keywords
- Calculus of variations
- Optimal control
- Isoperimetric and mixed constraints
- Inequality and equality constraints
- Sufficiency
- Essential boundedness
- Singularity