Optimal Control (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhauser; Birkhäuser
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780817640750
Subjects: Optimization; Technology & Industrial Arts; General; Automation; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Mathematical Models; Engineering - General; Robotics; Nonlinear control; Nonsmooth analysis; Optimal control; Technology / Engineering / Electrical; Applied; Engineering - Mechanical; Automatic control; Control theory
First sentence: Optimal Control emerged as a distinct field of research in the 1950s, to address in a unified fashion optimization problems arising in scheduling and the control of engineering devices, beyond the reach of traditional analytical and computational techniques.
Description: "Optimal Control brings together many of the important advances in non-smooth optimal control of the last two decades concerning necessary conditions, minimizer regularity, and global optimality conditions associated with the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The analysis is largely self-contained and incorporates many of the simplifications and unifying features of optimal control revealed by recent research.".

"This book is an essential resource for those who need to know about optimal control and its applications. Postgraduates, researchers, and professionals in systems science, control, optimization, and applied mathematics will benefit from its lucid exposition and the rich store of insights that it provides."--BOOK JACKET.