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This report discusses a control problem when the manipulated variable is constrained to be a polynomial. e.g. this variable can modify behaviour of the controlled system only in a limited number of steps and be zero afterwards. The basic criterion considered is to minimise the number of control steps. Open-loop and closed-loop formulations are presented.