Optimal Control brings together many of the important advances in 'nonsmooth' optimal control over the last several decades concerning necessary conditions, minimizer regularity, and global optimality conditions associated with the Hamilton Jacobi equation. The book is largely self-contained and incorporates numerous simplifications and unifying features for the subject s key concepts and foundations.

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