“…Due to the independence of coefficients m, a and b in (1.4), the nonlinear term uu x does not disappear after using the transformation y = uu xx , which leads to the difficulty of establishing the estimates for term uu x . This is the major improvement in comparison with the results in the literature [5,10,17,32], where the problems studied are special cases of the optimal control problem (1.3) in this paper. Moreover, we obtain the necessity condition and local uniqueness of optimal control to the optimal control problem (1.3) by using the Gâteaux derivative of cost functional.…”