IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information Advance Access published online on February 19, 2007
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, doi:10.1093/imamci/dnm001
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Maximum principle for optimal control of sterilization of prepackaged food

Department of Mathematics, Bohai University, Jinzhou, Liaoning 121000, People's Republic of China
College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022, People's Republic of China
Corresponding author. Present address: 23 Paca PL, Rockville, MD 20852-1123, USA. E-mail: sunbing{at}amss.ac.cn, sunamss{at}gmail.com
Received on 13 November 2006; Revision received 8 December 2006. Accepted on 20 January 2007
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This paper is concerned with an optimal control problem of the sterilization of prepackaged food. The DubovitskiiMilyutin approach is adopted in investigation of the Pontryagin's maximum principle of the system. The necessary condition is presented for the problem with fixed final horizon and phase constraints.
Keywords: sterilization of prepackaged food; optimal control; maximum principle; necessary condition.