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Title Hamiltonian reduction of the midpoint discretization for optimal control problems

Name Pedro Luis Garc\'ia
Country Spain
Email pgarcia@usal.es
Co-Author(s)
Submit Time 2014-03-16 10:43:12
Session
Special Session 105: Geometric mechanics
Contents
Given a regular optimal control problem with m control variables, we can construct m infinitesimal symmetries from its midpoint discretization. The Noether invariants associated to these symmetries are used to construct a Hamiltonian reduction and the corresponding variational integrator. The theory is illustrated with the elementary example of the Heisenberg problem. This is a joint work with Antonio Fernandez.