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This paper provides a framework for deriving a new set of necessary conditions for adverse control problems among two players. The distinguish feature of such problems is that the first player has a priori knowledge on the second player strategy. A subclass of adverse control problems is the one of minimax control problems, which frequently arise in robust dynamic optimization. The conditions derived in this manuscript are expressed in terms of relaxed derivatives: the dual variables and the related functions are limits of computable sequences, obtained by considering a regularized version of the original problem and applying well known necessary conditions. This topic was initially treated by J. Warga.
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Palladino, M. Necessary Conditions for Adverse Control Problems Expressed by Relaxed Derivatives. Set-Valued Var. Anal 24, 659–683 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11228-016-0364-9
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Keywords
- Necessary conditions
- Optimal control
- Ordinary differential equations
- Relaxation
- Generalized derivatives
- Conflicting controls