A note on time-optimal paths on perturbed spheroid

DOI10.3934/JGM.2018005MaRDI QIDQ1711940zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Piotr Kopacz

Publication date 18 January 2019

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00167

zbMATH Keywords

ellipsoidFinsler geometrynavigationRanders metricrotationspheroidtime-minimal pathZermelo problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics) (53C60)

Abstract: We consider the Zermelo navigation problem on the ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) in the presence of a perturbation $W$ determined by a mild velocity vector field, $|W|<1$, with application of Finsler metric of Randers type in the context of the corresponding optimal control represented by a time-efficient ship's heading $varphi(t)$ (steering direction). As the example we present the solutions to the problem on an oblate ellipsoid with acting infinitesimal rotation.

Review text

The author considers Zermelo's problem of navigation on a spheroid in the presence of a space-dependent perturbation determined by a weak velocity vector field. The approach used here is purely geometric with the application of a Finsler metric of Randers type making use of the corresponding optimal control represented by a time-minimal ship's heading \(\phi (t)\). Further a preservation of the optimal control \(\phi (t)\) of the time-efficient trajectories in the presence and absence of acting perturbation. Such navigational treatment of the problem leads to some simple relations between the background Riemannian and the resulting Finsler geodesics, thought of the deformed Riemannian paths. In the end the author shows some connections with Clairaut's relation and a collision problem.

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