A contact covariant approach to optimal control with applications to sub-Riemannian geometry. Issue 3 (September 2016) - Jóźwikowski, Michał
Abstract We discuss contact geometry naturally related with optimal control problems (and Pontryagin Maximum Principle). We explore and expand the observations of Ohsawa (Autom J IFAC 55:1–5, 2015), providing simple and elegant characterizations of normal and abnormal sub-Riemannian extremals.