# Unbounded variation and solutions of impulsive control systems

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a new framework for analyzing control systems with unbounded variation in the control derivative, establishing well-posedness and representation of generalized solutions using graph completion, with implications for controllability and optimal control.

## Contribution

It develops a novel notion of generalized solutions for impulsive control systems with unbounded variation, extending the graph completion approach and proving well-posedness via limit solutions.

## Key findings

- Established a representation formula for generalized solutions.
- Proved the well-posedness of solutions as limits of regular trajectories.
- Provided a framework for controllability and optimal control with unbounded variation controls.

## Abstract

We consider a control system with dynamics which are affine in the (unbounded) derivative of the control $u$. We introduce a notion of generalized solution $x$ on $[0,T]$ for controls $u$ of bounded total variation on $[0,t]$ for every $t<T$, but of possibly infinite variation on $[0,T]$. This solution has a simple representation formula based on the so-called graph completion approach, originally developed for BV controls. We prove the well-posedness of this generalized solution by showing that $x$ is a limit solution, that is the pointwise limit of regular trajectories of the system. In particular, we single out the subset of limit solutions which is in one-to-one correspondence with the set of generalized solutions. The controls that we consider provide the natural setting for treating some questions on the controllability of the system and some optimal control problems with endpoint constraints and lack of coercivity.