Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7109849 Automatica 2015 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
This paper gives a brief contact-geometric account of the Pontryagin maximum principle. We show that key notions in the Pontryagin maximum principle - such as the separating hyperplanes, costate, necessary condition, and normal/abnormal minimizers - have natural contact-geometric interpretations. We then exploit the contact-geometric formulation to give a simple derivation of the transversality condition for optimal control with terminal cost.
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