On the sufficiency of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for optimality of the controls in a linear optimal-time problem
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instance of: scholarly article
title: On the sufficiency of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for optimality of the controls in a linear optimal-time problem
zbMATH Open document ID: 0597.49014
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6911(86)90132-5
author: F. Mignanego
author: G. Pieri
published in: Systems \& Control Letters
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper deals with the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation associated with the optimal-time control problem of autonomous finite- dimensional linear systems. Although the principal result established in Theorem 4.2 is true, it is almost useless, because it gives a sufficient condition for a solution of the HJB equation to be the optimal cost function, in terms of the generalized gradients of the optimal cost function itself. In other words, it says that in order to verify whether (or not) a solution of the HJB equation is the desired solution (i.e. the optimal cost function), it is necessary to know previously that desired solution! Also, there are some errors and deficiencies of expression. Among them, the following: 1) The hypothesis that the set of controls U contains 0 in its interior is mentioned between brackets, although that hypothesis is essential to prove that the optimal cost function is Lipschitz-continuous. 2) In (4.2) the correct expression of \(\hat w\) is: \(\hat w(t)=L(t))'\hat w(0)\). 3) In definition 2.2, the expression: ''... and E(t) is constant everywhere'' is confusing, because that property is a consequence of the first part of the definition of maximal controls and not a part of the definition. 4) The correct expression of Theorem 4.1 should be the following: If, for some \(x\in S\), \((\hat w(\cdot),\hat v(\cdot))\) satisfy..., then \(\hat v\) is optimal for P(x).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49K15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49L99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 93B03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49J15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49J50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49L20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 93C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 93C99
zbMATH DE Number: 3962582
zbMATH Keywords: Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation
zbMATH Keywords: optimal-time control
zbMATH Keywords: autonomous finite-dimensional linear systems
zbMATH Keywords: generalized gradients
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