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Optimal control

Optimal control theory is a branch of control theory that deals with finding a control for a dynamical system over a period of time such that an objective function is optimized. It has numerous applications in science, engineering and operations research. For example, the dynamical system might be a spacecraft with controls corresponding to rocket…

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General method

Linear quadratic control

Numerical methods for optimal control

Discrete-time optimal control

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related to External links · 43
Optimal control → Applications, April, Archived, Automatic Control Laboratory, Becerra, Benoît CHACHUAT, Calculus, Computational Optimal ControlDr, December, DIDO, Free, Freiburg, General-Purpose MATLAB Optimal Control, Graphical Environment, March, MATLAB, MATLAB Optimal Control SoftwareOpenOCL, Moritz Diehl, Nonlinear Programming, Numerical Optimal Control
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Optimal control → An Introduction, Applied Optimal Control, Athena, Belmont, Bertsekas, Bryson, Control, Deterministic, Dynamic Optimization, Dynamic Programming, Economics, Elsevier, Englewood Cliffs, Estimation, Fleming, Ho, ISBN, John Wiley, Kamien, Kirk
related to General method · 12
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Optimal control → Active, IICasADiJModelica, Kalman, MATLAB, Modelica-based, Optimal Control Software, Predictive ControlOvertaking, PROPT, Pseudospectral
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related to Linear quadratic control · 4
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Optimal control → extension of the calculus of variations, set of differential equations describing the paths of the control variables that minimize the cost function

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