Imperial College London

Emeritus ProfessorRichardVinter

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Emeritus Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6287r.vinter Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Raluca Reynolds +44 (0)20 7594 6281

 
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Location

 

618Electrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Vinter:2011,
author = {Vinter, RB and Bettiol, P},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
pages = {1090--1096},
title = {Trajectories satisfying a state constraint: improved estimates and new non-degeneracy conditions},
volume = {56},
year = {2011}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - For a state-constrained control system described by a differential inclusion and a single functional inequality state constraint, it is known that, under an `inward pointing condition', the $W^{1,1}$ distance of an arbitrary state trajectory to the set of state trajectories, which have the same left endpoint and which satisfy the state constraint, is linearly related to the state constraint violation. In this paper we show that, in situations where the state-constrained control system is described instead by a controlled differential equation, this estimate can be improved by replacing the $W^{1,1}$ distance on state trajectories by the Ekeland metric of the distance of the control functions. A counter-example reveals that a refinement of this nature is not in general valid for state constrained differential inclusions. Finally we show how the refined estimates may be used to establish new conditions for non-degeneracy of the state constrained Maximum Principle, in circumstances when the data depends discontinuously on the control variable.
AU - Vinter,RB
AU - Bettiol,P
EP - 1096
PY - 2011///
SP - 1090
TI - Trajectories satisfying a state constraint: improved estimates and new non-degeneracy conditions
T2 - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
VL - 56
ER -