American Control Conference 2006, Minnesota, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 14 - 16 Haziran 2006, ss.3364-3369
We consider a two-stage serial hybrid system for which the arrival times are known and the service times are controllable. We derive some optimal sample path characteristics, in particular, we show that no buffering is observed between stages. The original non-smooth optimal control problem is first transformed into a convex optimization problem which is then simplified by the no buffer property. Further simplifications are possible for the bulk arrival case.