Robust penalty function method for an uncertain multi-time control optimization problems

This paper gives some new results on multi-time first-order PDE constrained control optimization problem in the face of data uncertainty (MCOPU). We obtain the robust sufficient optimality conditions for (MCOPU). Further, we construct an unconstrained multi-time control optimization problem (MCOPU),, corresponding to (MCOPU) via absolute value penalty function method. Then, we show that the robust optimal solution to the constrained problem and a robust minimizer to the unconstrained problem are equivalent under suitable hypotheses. Moreover, we give some non-trivial examples to validate the results established in this paper. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.