TY - JOUR T1 - Hybrid optimal control: case study of a car with gears JF - Int. J. Control 76 (2003) 1272-1284 Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ciro D'Apice A1 - Mauro Garavello A1 - Rosanna Manzo A1 - Benedetto Piccoli AB - The purpose of this paper is to show the use of some analytical tools for hybrid optimal control. We illustrate both the hybrid maximum principle and the hybrid necessary principle at work on a simple example of a car with gears. The model is sufficiently rich to generate non-trivial optimization problems and the obtained results match with intuition. Finally, computer simulations confirm the theoretical analysis. PB - Taylor and Francis UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3022 U1 - 1311 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -