Optimality properties of controls with bang-bang components in problems with semilinear state equation

In this paper we study optimal control problems with bang-bang solution behavior for a special class of semilinear dynamics. Generalizing a former result for linear systems, optimlity conditions are derived by a duality based approach. The results apply for scalar as well as for vector control functions and, in particular, for the case of the so-called multiple switches, too. Further, an iterative procedure for determining switching points is proposed, and convergence results are provided.