Complexity of the minimum-time damping of a physical pendulum

DOI10.1137/13091107XzbMATH Open1301.49007arXiv1311.5729MaRDI QIDQ5494869FDOQ5494869

Authors: Alexander Ovseevich 

Publication date: 30 July 2014

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the minimum-time damping of a physical pendulum by means of a bounded control. In the similar problem for a linear oscillator each optimal trajectory possesses a finite number of control switchings from the maximal to the minimal value. If one considers simultaneously all optimal trajectories with any initial state, the number of switchings can be arbitrary large. We show that for the nonlinear pendulum there is a uniform bound for the switching number for all optimal trajectories. We find asymptotics for this bound as the control amplitude goes to zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5729

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal controlbang-bang controlSturm theoryPoincaré map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Controllability (93B05) Oscillation theory, zeros, disconjugacy and comparison theory for ordinary differential equations (34C10) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations (49J15) Existence of optimal solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.) (49J30)

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