Pseudospectral Legendre-based optimal computation of nonlinear constrained variational problems (Q1385056)

The authors study the pseudospectral Legendre method for general nonlinear smooth and nonsmooth constrained problems of the calculus of variations of the form: \[ J(X)= \int^T_0 G(\tau, X(\tau), \dot X(\tau), \ddot X(\tau)) d\tau\to\text{ Extremum} \] \[ X(0)= X_0;\quad S(\tau, X(\tau),\dot X(\tau))\leq 0,\quad 0\leq \tau\leq T;\quad Z(X(T), \dot X(T), \ddot X(T),T)= 0. \] Illustrative examples are included to confirm the convergence of the pseudospectral Legendre method.