We discuss the problem of optimal control theory given by second order sweeping processes with discrete and differential inclusions. The main problem is to derive sufficient optimality conditions for second-order sweeping processes with differential inclusions. By using first and second order difference operators in a continuous problem we associate the second order sweeping processes with a discrete-approximate problem. On the basis of the discretization method in the form of Euler-Lagrange inclusions, optimality conditions for discrete approximate inclusions and transversality conditions are obtained. The establishment of Euler-Lagrange type adjoint inclusions is based on the presence of equivalence relations for locally adjoint mappings. To demonstrate the results obtained, a second-order sweeping process with a "linear" differential inclusion is considered.

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Elimhan N. Mahmudov

Department of Mathematics, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
and: Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Control Systems, Baku, Azerbaijan

elimhan22@yahoo.com

E. N. Mahmudov. “Optimal Control of Second Order Sweeping Processes with Discrete and Differential Inclusions.” Journal of Convex Analysis 29 (2022), No. 1, 269–290.