Robust control of nonlinear systems: An application to science policy

✍ Scribed by George Leitmann

• Book ID: 104330885
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 371 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0362-546X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0362-546x(96)00103-4

✦ Synopsis

Intriligator [l], Intriligator and Smith [2], Stoikov [3], Bolt, Koltun and Levine , and others, have investigated one aspect of allocating new doctoral scientists between teaching and research careers. In [1,2] the authors studied the allocation of new scientists by formulating the problem as a constrained optimal control one with the numbers of teaching and research scientists as state variables and the allocation proportion as control variable. The objective function to be maximized was a welfare function consisting of a future and an intermediate component.

Here we address the allocation of new scientists between teaching and research careers in a manner different from that employed in . With uncertainty present in the system parameters and control constraints, we inquire after fractions of new scientists which must be induced to enter academic and research careers, respectively, in order to achieve, within a given time interval, prescribed numbers of teaching and research scientists.