We give a simple proof of the Maximum Principle for smooth hybrid control systems by reducing the hybrid problem to an optimal control problem of Pontryagin type and then by using the classical Pontryagin Maximum Principle.

This paper presents characterization of shortest paths for differentialdrive mobile robots with classifying solutions in the spirit of Dubins curves and Reeds-Shepp curves for car-like robots. Not only optimal paths for mobile robots are interesting with respect to the optimized criteria, but also they offer a family of motion primitives that can be used for motion planning in the presence of o...

We derive a Maximum Principle for optimal control problems with constraints given by the coupling of a system of ODEs and a PDE of Vlasov-type. Such problems arise naturally as Γ-limits of optimal control problems subject to ODE constraints, modeling, for instance, external interventions on crowd dynamics. We obtain these first-order optimality conditions in the form of Hamiltonian flows in the...

In this paper optimal control problem of fuzzy linear time invariant systems is considered. Determining of system optimal input with minimizing quadratic integral criterion by using Pontryagin Minimum Principle will make the Fuzzy Partial Differential Equations [FPDEs] system solve the problem. The quality of obtaining system optimal input by solving the FPDEs system has been studied based on n...

This paper gives a brief contact-geometric account of the Pontryagin maximum principle. We show that key notions in the Pontryagin maximum principle—such as the separating hyperplanes, costate, necessary condition, and normal/abnormal minimizers—have natural contactgeometric interpretations. We then exploit the contact-geometric formulation to give a simple derivation of the transversality cond...

The purpose of this paper is to present an alternate derivation of optimal linear filters. The basic technique is the use of a matrix version of the maximum principle of Pontryagin coupled with the use of gradient matrices to derive the optimal values of the ; '1 filter coefficients for minimum variance estimation under the require­ :11" ment that the estimates be unbiased. The optimal filter w...

a long time ago, since the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957, controling attitude of satellites has been considered by the designers and engineers of aerospace industry. considering the importance of this issue various methods of control in response to this need have been presented and analyzed until now. in this paper, we propose and analyze a three-axis optimal control on the s...