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Unbounded viscosity solutions of hybrid control systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2008

Guy Barles,
Sheetal Dharmatti and
Mythily Ramaswamy
Guy Barles
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Mathématique et Physique Théorique, Fédération Denis Poisson, Université François Rabelais Tours, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France. barles@lmpt.univ-tours.fr
Sheetal Dharmatti
Affiliation:
Laboratoire MIP, UMR CNRS 5640, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. sheetal@mip.ups-tlse.fr
Mythily Ramaswamy
Affiliation:
TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Sharada Nagar, Yelahanka New Town, Bangalore-560065, India. mythily@math.tifrbng.res.in
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Abstract

We study a hybrid control system in which both discrete and continuous controls are involved. The discrete controls act on the system at a given set interface. The state of the system is changed discontinuously when the trajectory hits predefined sets, namely, an autonomous jumpset A or a controlled jump set C where controller can choose to jump or not. At each jump, trajectory can move to a different Euclidean space. We allow the cost functionals to be unbounded with certain growth and hence the corresponding value function can be unbounded. We characterize the value function as the unique viscosity solution of the associated quasivariational inequality in a suitable function class. We also consider the evolutionary, finite horizon hybrid control problem with similar model and prove that the value function is the unique viscosity solution in the continuous function class while allowing cost functionals as well as the dynamics to be unbounded.

Keywords

Dynamic programming principleviscosity solutionquasivariational inequalityhybrid control

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Research Article
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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2010, pp. 176 - 193
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2008

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