Necessary conditions of extremum (from the times of Fermat and Lagrange till our times) for extremal problems where smoothness is interlaced with convexity, and some type of regularity takes place, correspond to a unique general principle, which is due to Lagrange. This report is devoted to the Lagrange principle in the theory of optimization.

The study of fractional variational problems with derivatives in the sense of Caputo is a recent subject, the main results being Agrawal’s necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange and respective transversality conditions. Using Agrawal’s Euler-Lagrange equation and the Lagrange multiplier technique, we obtain here a Noether-like theorem for fractional optimal control problems in the se...

Lagrangian systems with ideal nonholonomic constraints can be expressed as implicit index 2 differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) and can be derived from the Lagrange-d’Alembert principle. We define a new nonholonomically constrained discrete Lagrange-d’Alembert principle based on a discrete Lagrange-d’Alembert principle for forced Lagrangian systems. Nonholonomic constraints are considered a...

An efficient implementation technique for the Lagrange interpolation is derived. This formulation called the Farrow structure leads to a version of Lagrange interpolation that is well suited to time varying FD filtering. Lagrange interpolation is mostly used for fractional delay approximation as it can be used for increasing the sampling rate of signals and systems. Lagrange interpolation is on...

Abstract: This paper addresses a stability analysis problem and synthesis problem for pendulum-like systems with multiple nonlinearities. A method for analysing the Lagrange stability of a pendulum-like system with multiple nonlinearities is proposed. In order to study the synthesis problem, the paper develops an Extended Strict Bounded Real Lemma for unstable systems. A sufficient condition fo...

The regularity of Lagrange multipliers for state-constrained optimal control problems belongs to the basic questions of control theory. Here, we investigate bottleneck problems arising from optimal control problems for PDEs with certain mixed control-state inequality constraints. We show how to obtain Lagrange multipliers in L p-spaces for linear problems and give an application to linear parab...