In the paper, we study a differential inclusion with a given continuous convex multivalued mapping. For a prescribed finite time interval, it is required to construct a solution to the differential inclusion, which satisfies the prescribed initial and final conditions and minimizes the integral functional. By means of support functions, the original problem is reduced to minimizing some functional in the space of partially continuous functions. When the support function of the multivalued mapping is continuously differentiable with respect to the phase variables, this functional is Gateaux differentiable. In the study, the Gateaux gradient is determined and the necessary conditions for the minimum of the functional are obtained. Based on these conditions, the method of steepest descent is applied to the original problem. The numerical examples illustrate the implementation of the constructed algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)397-406
Number of pages10
JournalVestnik St. Petersburg University: Mathematics
Volume51
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2018

    Research areas

  • differential inclusion, steepest descent method, support function

    Scopus subject areas

  • Mathematics(all)

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