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Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Mathematics, 2022 Volume 41, Pages 19–39 (Mi iigum492)

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Dynamic systems and optimal control

Feedback minimum principle: variational strengthening of the concept of extremality in optimal control

Vladimir A. Dykhta

V.M. Matrosov Institute of System Dynamics and Control Theory SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

Abstract: Existing maximum principles of Pontryagin’s type and related optimality conditions, such as, e.g., the ones derived by F. Clarke, B. Kaskosz and S. Lojasiewicz Jr., and H.J. Sussmann, can be strengthened up to global necessary optimality conditions in the form of so-called feedback minimum principle. This is possible for both classical and non-smooth optimal control problems without terminal constraints. The formulation of the feedback minimum principle (or related extremality conditions) remains within basic constructions of the mentioned maximum principles (the Hamiltonian or Pontryagin function, the adjoint differential equation or inclusion, and its solutions –– co-trajectories). At the same time, the actual maximum condition –– maximization of the Hamiltonian –– takes a variational form: any optimal trajectory of the addressed problem should be optimal for a specific “accessory” problem of dynamic optimization. The latter is stated over all tubes of Krasovskii-Subbotin constructive motions generated by feedback strategies, which are extremal with respect to a certain supersolution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Such a supersolution can be represented explicitely in terms of the co-trajectory of a reference control process and the terminal cost function. In a general version, the feedback minimum principle operates with generalized solutions of the proximal Hamilton-Jacobi inequality for weakly decreasing ($u$-stable) functions.

Keywords: extremals, feedback, weakly decreasing functions.

UDC: 517.977.5

MSC: 49K15, 49L99, 49N35

Received: 20.07.2022
Revised: 18.08.2022
Accepted: 22.08.2022

DOI: 10.26516/1997-7670.2022.41.19



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