Subgradients of the Value Function in a Parametric Convex Optimal Control Problem

Abstract

Motivated by our recent works on the optimal value function in parametric optimal control problems under linear state equations, in this paper we study of the first-order behavior of the value function of a parametric convex optimal control problem with a convex cost function and linear state equations. By establishing an abstract result on the subdifferential of the value function to a parametric convex mathematical programming problem, we derive a formula for computing the subdifferential and the singular subdifferential of the value function to a parametric convex optimal control problem. By virtue of the convexity, several assumptions used in the above papers, like the existence of a local upper Lipschitzian selection of the solution map, as well as the V-inner semicontinuity of the solution map, are no longer needed.