Optimal Control Theory - An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Kirk, Donald E.

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 464
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Geared toward upper-level undergraduates, this text introduces three aspects of optimal control theory: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's minimum principle, and numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. Numerous problems, which introduce additional topics and illustrate basic concepts, appear throughout the text. Contains 131 figures and 14 tables.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
• Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
•Part I. Describing the System and Evaluating its Performance 1. Introduction
2. The Performance Measure
•Part II. Dynamic Programming 3. Dynamic Programming
•Part III. The Calculus of Variations and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle 4. The Calculus of Variations
5. The Variational Approach to Optimal Control Problems
•Part IV. Iterative Numerical Techniques for Finding Optimal Controls and Trajectories 6. Numerical Determination of Optimal Trajectories
•Part V. Conclusion 7. Summation
Appendices
Index