Applications to Regular and Bang-Bang Control

Nikolai Osmolovskii holds several professorships, which include positions at the University of Siedlce, the Polish Academy of Science and the Technical University of Radom. He has authored 50 research papers and four monographs. Helmut Maurer has held a professorship at the University of Münster since 1977; he retired in 2010, but remains active in many international research projects.

• List of FiguresNotationPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Second-Order Optimality Conditions for Broken Extremals in the Calculus of VariationsChapter 1: Abstract Scheme for Obtaining Higher-Order Conditions in Smooth Extremal Problems with ConstraintsChapter 2: Quadratic Conditions in the General Problem of the Calculus of VariationsChapter 3: Quadratic Conditions for Optimal Control Problems with Mixed Control-State ConstraintsChapter 4: Jacobi-Type Conditions and Riccati Equation for Broken ExtremalsPart II: Second-Order Optimality Conditions in Optimal Bang-Bang Control ProblemsChapter 5: Second-Order Optimality Conditions in Optimal Control Problems Linear in a Part of ControlsChapter 6: Second-Order Optimality Conditions for Bang-Bang ControlChapter 7: Bang-Bang Control Problem and Its Induced Optimization ProblemChapter 8: Numerical Methods for Solving the Induced Optimization Problem and ApplicationsBibliographyIndex.