Practical methods for optimal control using nonlinear programming

✍ Scribed by John T. Betts

• Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Advances in design and control
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many books on optimal control are not practical, because to solve real problems we often need to apply numerical methods.
So that the subject of the book is extremely important.
However, the organization of this book is a complete mess. It mixes some pieces of optimization topics, written in a generic manner that are not sufficient to implement any algorithm. You need to know the topics from another book. Then the book isnt so practical as the author says.

✦ Table of Contents

Practical Methods for Optimal Control Using Nonlinear Programming......Page 2
Advances in Design and Control......Page 3
ISBN 0-89871-488-5......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 Introduction to Nonlinear Programming......Page 12
2 Large, Sparse Nonlinear Programming......Page 48
3 Optimal Control Preliminaries......Page 72
4 The Optimal Control Problem......Page 92
5 Optimal Control Examples......Page 144
Appendix......Page 188
Bibliography......Page 192
Index......Page 200