Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

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A necessary condition for optimality in optimal control problems, particularly relevant when controls are bounded, strengthening the stationarity condition to a global minimization of the Hamiltonian.

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Stanford AA203 Optimal and Learning-Based Control | Spring 2026 | Lecture 5: Computational Methods

Stanford AA203 Optimal and Learning-Based Control | Spring 2026 | Lecture 5: Computational Methods

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A necessary condition for optimality in optimal control problems, particularly relevant when controls are bounded, strengthening the stationarity condition to a global minimization of the Hamiltonian.