This paper discusses the optimal solution of Mayer’s problem for globally feedback linearizable time-invariant systems subject to general nonlinear path and actuator constraints. This class of problems includes the minimum time problem, important for engineering applications. Globally feedback linearizable nonlinear systems are diffeomorphic to linear systems that consist of blocks of integrators. Using this alternate form, it is proved that the optimal solution always lies on a constraint arc. As a result of this optimal structure of the solution, efficient numerical procedures can be developed. For a single input system, this result allows to characterize and build the optimal solution. The associated multi-point boundary value problem is then solved using direct solution techniques. [S0022-0434(00)02002-5]

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
feedback, linearisation techniques, nonlinear control systems, optimal control, boundary-value problems
Topics:
Boundary-value problems, Feedback, Time-invariant systems, Trajectories (Physics), Phase space, Pendulums
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