Optimal control theory with aerospace applications
By: Joseph Z. Ben-Asher
Series: AIAA education series; AIAA education series
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Reston, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781600867323
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical background; title: Ordinary minimum problems : from the beginning of calculus to Kuhn-Tucker; title: Calculus of variations : from Bernoulli to Bliss; title: Minimum principle of Pontryagin and Hestenes; title: Application of the Jacobi test in optimal control and neighboring extremals; title: Numerical techniques for the optimal control problem; title: Singular perturbation technique and its application to air-to-space interception; title: Application to aircraft performance : Rutowski and Kaiser's techniques and more; title: Application to rocket performance : the Goddard problem; title: Application to missile guidance : proportional navigation; title: Application to time-optimal rotational maneuvers of flexible spacecraft.