Optimal Control Theory for Applications (Mechanical Engineering Series)

Optimal Control Theory for Applications (Mechanical Engineering Series)

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Book Description

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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Text covers the analytical optimization of points and curves. For beginning engineering graduate students and practicing engineers. DLC: Optimal control theory.

Optimal Control Theory for Applications (Mechanical Engineering Series),David G. Hull,Springer,0387400702,Applied,Control theory,Engineering - Mechanical,General,Mathematical optimization,Mathematics,Robotics,Science/Mathematics,Technology & Industrial Arts,Technology / Engineering / Mechanical

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