Some Properties of the Value Function and Its Level Sets for Affine Control Systems with Quadratic Cost

  • Authors:
  • E. Trélat

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Bourgogne, Laboratoire de Topologie, UMR 5584 du CNRS, BP47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France. trelat@topolog.u-bourgogne.fr

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Let T 0 be fixed. We consider the optimal control problem for analytic affine systems: \dot{x} = f_{0}(x) + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{m} u_{i} f_{i} (x), with a cost of the form: C(u) = \int\limits_{0}^{T} \sum\limits_{i=1}^{m} u_{i}^{2} (t) dt. For this kind of systems we prove that if there are no minimizing abnormal extremals then the value function S is subanalytic. Second, we prove that if there exists an abnormal minimizer of corank 1, then the set of endpoints of minimizers at cost fixed is tangent to a given hyperplane. We illustrate this situation in sub-Riemannian geometry.