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OPTIMAL CONTROL FOR SWITCHING SYSTEMS Thomas I Seidman Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore MD Bitnet seidmanumbc ABSTRACT The notion of switching system generalizes the idea of a dierential equa tion a switching system consists of a numb er of modes eg dierential equations together with a set of switching rules Such systems arise in mo d eling thermostats and other devices involving hysteresis in considering the evolution of a multimo dal variable structure system for which feedback control has b een implemented by switching surfaces and as reduced order mo dels for systems involving certain singular p erturbation eects Here we formulate some optimal control problems involving switching systems and under appropriate asumptions prove the existence of optimal controls Acknowledgment This research has b een partially supp orted by the Air Force Oce of Scientic Research under grant AFOSR INTRODUCTION Very roughly a switching system is a system which can op erate in any of a numb er of modes eg given by dierential equations x f x j 1 Presented at the st Annual Conf on Inf Sci and Syst Johns Hopkins Univ March This app ears on pp of the Pro ceedings indexed by j J together with certain switching rules Some background on switching systems adapted to the consideration of control led switching systems will b e presented in the next section for more detail see While there are various other interesting controltheoretic questions which might b