Perhaps the most important of these is that constraints on the control, state and output can be incorporated directly into the design.
Constraints are often the dominant characteristic in an industrial control problem.
This talk will focus on two applications of OBC on United Technologies products. We will frame this as an optimal control problem which is constrained by the UAV dynamics and control rates and magnitudes. This problem can be solved in closed form for some simple cases. The UAV path planning problem will also be posed and solved using potential field theory. The second application of OBC is for gas turbine engines.