Optimal Control Theory for Applications /
This textbook is the outgrowth of teaching analytical optimization to aerospace engineering graduate students. To make the material available to the widest audience, the prerequisites are limited to calculus and differential equations. It is also a book about the mathematical aspects of optimal cont...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2003.
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| Series: | Mechanical engineering series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This textbook is the outgrowth of teaching analytical optimization to aerospace engineering graduate students. To make the material available to the widest audience, the prerequisites are limited to calculus and differential equations. It is also a book about the mathematical aspects of optimal control theory. It was developed in an engineering environment from material learned by the author while applying it to the solution of engineering problems. One goal of the book is to help engineering graduate students learn the fundamentals which are needed to apply the methods to engineering problems. The examples are from geometry and elementary dynamical systems so that they can be understood by all engineering students. Another goal of this text is to unify optimization by using the differential of calculus to create the Taylor series expansions needed to derive the optimality conditions of optimal control theory. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 384 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781475741803 (electronic bk.) 1475741804 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0941-5122 |