Imperial College London
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Emeritus ProfessorRichardVinter

Faculty of Engineering, Department 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:2014:10.1137/130917417,
author = {Vinter, RB},
doi = {10.1137/130917417},
journal = {SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization},
pages = {1237--1250},
title = {The Hamiltonian Inclusion for Nonconvex Velocity Sets},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/130917417},
volume = {52},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Since Clarke's 1973 proof of the Hamiltonian inclusion for optimal control problems with convex velocity sets, there has been speculation (and, more recently, speculation relating to a stronger, partially convexified version of the Hamiltonian inclusion) as to whether these necessary conditions are valid in the absence of the convexity hypothesis. The issue was in part resolved by Clarke himself when, in 2005, he showed that $L^{\infty}$ local minimizers satisfy the Hamiltonian inclusion. In this paper it is shown, by counterexample, that the Hamiltonian inclusion (and so also the stronger partially convexified Hamiltonian inclusion) are not in general valid for nonconvex velocity sets when the local minimizer in question is merely a $W^{1,1}$ local minimizer, not an $L^{\infty}$ local minimizer. The counterexample demonstrates that the need to consider $L^{\infty}$ local minimizers, not $W^{1,1}$ local minimizers, in the proof of the Hamiltonian inclusion for nonconvex velocity sets is fundamental, not just a technical restriction imposed by currently available proof techniques. The paper also establishes the validity of the partially convexified Hamiltonian inclusion for $W^{1,1}$ local minimizers under a normality assumption, thereby correcting earlier assertions in the literature.
AU  - Vinter,RB
DO  - 10.1137/130917417
EP  - 1250
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 1095-7138
SP  - 1237
TI  - The Hamiltonian Inclusion for Nonconvex Velocity Sets
T2  - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/130917417
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/40474
VL  - 52
ER  -
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