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It is the purpose of this paper to develop and present new approaches to optimal control problems for which the state evolution equation is nonlinear. For bilinear systems in which the evolution equation is right invariant, it is possible to use ideas from differential geometry and Lie theory to obtain explicit closed-form solutions.
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Communicated by Y. C. Ho
The author wishes to thank Professor A. Krener for many stimulating discussions and in particular for suggesting Theorem 3.3. Also, special thanks are due to the author's thesis advisor Professor R. W. Brockett under whose direction most of the research was done. Finally, the author thanks two anonymous referees for suggestions which have improved the exposition.
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Baillieul, J. Geometric methods for nonlinear optimal control problems. J Optim Theory Appl 25, 519–548 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00933518
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