The powerful mathematical techniques that have been developed in deterministic optimal control theory make it possible to derive more detailed information about the structure of solutions then could have been obtained in the past. This volume addresses such topics as well as supports new algorithmic approaches to the calculation of solutions.

Inhalt
Impulsive control systems.- Approximation of optimal control problems with state constraints: Estimates and applications.- Discrete approximations in optimal control.- The maximum principle in optimal control of systems governed by semilinear equations.- On controlled invariance for a simple class of distributions with singularities.- Dynamic feedback stabilization.- to a paper of M.Z. Shapiro: Homotopy theory in control.- Optimization and finite difference approximations of nonconvex differential inclusions with free time.- Small-time reachable sets and time-optimal feedback control.- Higher order variations: How can they be defined in order to have good properties?.- Well posed optimal control problems: A perturbation approach.