Improvement of extreme controls and the steepest ascent method in the norm maximization problem on the reachable set

The maximization of the terminal state norm of a linear system is considered in the sense of searching for and improving extreme points of the reachable set. A sufficient optimality condition is formulated in terms of a special maximum function. A steepest ascent method for level surfaces of the objective function is constructed, and related procedures for improving extreme controls are described.