For single-input C^∞ systems in the plane, in which the control enters linearly, we prove, if the system is suitably nondegenerate, that the time-optimal trajectories are finite concatenations of “bang-bang” and singular arcs, with local bounds on the number of switchings.
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H.J. Sussmann (1987) studied this question.
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