简介:InthispaperweanalyzetheoptimalcontrolproblemforaclassofaffinenonlinearsystemsundertheassumptionthattheassociatedLiealgebraisnilpotent.TheLiebracketsgeneratedbythevectorfieldswhichdefinethenonlinearsystemrepresentaremarkablemathematicalinstrumentforthecontrolofaffinesystems.Wedeterminetheoptimalcontrolwhichcorrespondstothenilpotentoperatorofthefirstorder.Inparticular,weobtainthecontrolthatminimizestheenergyofthegivennonlinearsystem.Applicationsofthiscontroltobilinearsystemswithfirstordernilpotentoperatorareconsidered.