Here we will describe one such application, the automatic steering of a farm tractor, in which this situation occurs. Recent technological advances in microwave household appliances have created the possibility of a more refined control of the heating process in combination ovens. We present a simple, finite horizon linear quadratic regulator solution to the heating problem, which was calculated using the reduced set of model equations. The example involves the calculation of an optimal heating profile for a container of mashed potato. This routine allows a substantial reduction of computation time for the LQ design.
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This example shows the design of a flight controller for a Bell 205 helicopter using H-inf optimisation approach. The design example shown here is one of the exercises in that research. The system considered is a Bell 201 A-1 helicopter. The simulations included show the properties of the closed-loop system. It should be stressed that together with the derived controller the condition numbers and accuracy estimates are also produced which would greatly help the user judge the legitimacy of the computations and reliability of the designed controller.