Optimal Control Problems with Rate Independent Evolutions

Martin Brokate*

The main content of the talk is the presentation of necessary optimality conditions for an ODE system coupled to a rate independent variational inequality. Extensions to other systems will be discussed if available.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 49J15 47J40

Keywords: optimal control, hysteresis, rate independence, variational inequality

Minisymposion: Optimal Control of Time-Dependent Variational Inequalities