15. Time-optimal control for a perturbed Brockett integrator

Abstract

The aim of this work is to compute time optimal controls for a perturbation of a Brockett integrator with state constraints. Brockett integrator and its perturbations appears in many applications fields. One of them described in details in this note is the swimming of microorganisms. We present some key results for a fast and robust numerical method to compute time optimal controls for the perturbation of a Brockett integrator. This numerical method is based on explicit formulae of time optimal controls for the Brockett integrator. The methodology presented in this work is applied to the time optimal control of a micro-swimmer.