A Zermelo navigation problem with a vortex singularity

DOI10.1051/COCV/2020058MaRDI QIDQ4999587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. Cots, B. Wembe, Bernard Bonnard

Publication date 7 July 2021

Published in ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01109

zbMATH Keywords

geometric optimal controlZermelo navigation problemconjugate and cut lociClairaut-Randers metric with polar singularityHelmholtz-Kirchhoff \(N\) vortices model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

Abstract: Helhmoltz-Kirchhoff equations of motions of vortices of an incompressible fluid in the plane define a dynamics with singularities and this leads to a Zermelo navigation problem describing the ship travel in such a field where the control is the heading angle. Considering one vortex, we define a time minimization problem which can be analyzed with the technics of geometric optimal control combined with numerical simulations, the geometric frame being the extension of Randers metrics in the punctured plane, with rotational symmetry. Candidates as minimizers are parameterized thanks to the Pontryagin Maximum Principle as extremal solutions of a Hamiltonian vector field. We analyze the time minimal solution to transfer the ship between two points where during the transfer the ship can be either in a strong current region in the vicinity of the vortex or in a weak current region. The analysis is based on a micro-local classification of the extremals using mainly the integrability properties of the dynamics due to the rotational symmetry. The discussion is complex and related to the existence of an isolated extremal (Reeb) circle due to the vortex singularity. The explicit computation of cut points where the extremal curves cease to be optimal is given and the spheres are described in the case where at the initial point the current is weak.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6692154
• Zur Lösung eines zermelosehen nayigationsproblems
• Time-extremal navigation in arbitrary winds on conformally flat Riemannian manifolds
• A note on time-optimal paths on perturbed spheroid
• On the curvature of two-dimensional optimal control systems and Zermelo's navigation problem

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1001612 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3167340 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1005873 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3798532 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3218097 (Why is no real title available?)
• Celestial mechanics and control of space vehicles
• Choreographies in the n-vortex problem
• Control theory from the geometric viewpoint.
• Differential continuation for regular optimal control problems
• Foliations: geometric studies
• Introduction to Hamiltonian dynamical systems and the \(N\)-body problem.
• LAGRANGIAN AND LEGENDRIAN SINGULARITIES
• Optimal control of a co-rotating vortex pair: averaging and impulsive control
• Optimal control with applications in space and quantum dynamics
• Second order optimality conditions in the smooth case and applications in optimal control
• Simple Choreographic Motions of N Bodies: A Preliminary Study
• Singular trajectories and their role in control theory
• Sufficient Conditions for Optimality and the Justification of the Dynamic Programming Method
• The High Order Maximal Principle and Its Application to Singular Extremals
• The \(N\)-vortex problem. Analytical techniques
• The cut loci and the conjugate loci on ellipsoids
• The cut locus of a Randers rotational 2-sphere of revolution
• Théorie des singularités de l'application entrée/sortie et optimalité des trajectoires singulières dans le problème du temps minimal
• Topological methods in hydrodynamics
• Vortex Dynamics
• Vortex dynamics models in flow control problems
• Zermelo navigation on Riemannian manifolds
• Über das Navigationsproblem bei ruhender oder veränderlicher Windverteilung

Cited in

(9)

• Classification of time-optimal paths under an external force based on Jacobi stability in Finsler space
• Abnormal geodesics in 2D-Zermelo navigation problems in the case of revolution and the Fan shape of the small time balls
• Zermelo navigation problems on surfaces of revolution and geometric optimal control
• Loss control regions in optimal control problems
• The Zermelo navigation problem on the 2-sphere of revolution: an optimal control perspective with applications to micromagnetism
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6692154 (Why is no real title available?)
• Time-optimal solutions of Zermelo's navigation problem with moving obstacles
• Zermelo navigation in pseudo-Finsler metrics
• An account on links between Finsler and Lorentz geometries for Riemannian geometers

This page was built for publication: A Zermelo navigation problem with a vortex singularity

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4999587)