Abstract
We consider the optimal control problem of minimizing an objective function that is quadratic in the control over a fixed interval for a multi-input bilinear dynamical system in the presence of control constraints. Such models are motivated by and applied to mathematical models for cancer chemotherapy over an a priori specified fixed therapy horizon. The necessary conditions for optimality of the Pontryagin maximum principle are easily evaluated and give a functional description of optimal controls as continuous functions of states and multipliers. However, there is no a priori guarantee that a numerically computed extremal controlled trajectory is locally optimal. In this paper, we formulate sufficient conditions for strong local optimality that are based on the existence of a bounded solution to a matrix Riccati differential equation. The theory is applied to a $3$-compartment model for multi-drug cancer chemotherapy with cytotoxic and cytostatic agents. The numerical results are compared with those for a corresponding optimal control problem when the objective is taken linear in the controls.
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