Primer on Optimal Control Theory
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Author(s): J. L. Speyer and D. H. Jacobson
Publisher: SIAM
ISBN: 9780898716948
Format: hardback
307pp
Price: $89.00
Review Date: 30 July 2010
Review: The operation of many physical, economic, biomedical, manufacturing and engineering processes can be influenced by changing certain parameters so that they operate more efficiently, e.g. in commercial aircraft the minimum fuel usage is at cruise, which is an important consideration in an airline’s profitability. This book provides a good introduction to analysing such processes to find the best modes of control and operation for them. There are chapters on: Finite-dimensional optimization; Optimization of dynamic systems with general performance criteria; Terminal equality constraints; Linear quadratic control problem; LQ differential games; as well as appendices that provide background information.