Download or read book Counterexamples in Optimal Control Theory written by Semen Ya. Serovaiskii and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph deals with cases where optimal control either does not exist or is not unique, cases where optimality conditions are insufficient of degenerate, or where extremum problems in the sense of Tikhonov and Hadamard are ill-posed, and other situations. A formal application of classical optimisation methods in such cases either leads to wrong results or has no effect. The detailed analysis of these examples should provide a better understanding of the modern theory of optimal control and the practical difficulties of solving extremum problems.