Free-terminal-time transversality condition

ID: free-terminal-time-transversality-condition

For a smooth normal optimal control problem with freely variable terminal time, fixed terminal state independent of that time and terminal cost , the optimized Hamiltonian of an optimal-control problem at completion satisfies . It follows by varying the terminal time in the augmented objective; restrictions on terminal time or a moving endpoint introduce additional terms or inequalities.

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