Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction (Softcover)

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Continued from the back cover: "Chapters 1 and 2 focus on describing systems and evaluating their performances. Chapter 3 deals with dynamic programming. The calculus of variations and Pontryagin's minimum principle are the subjects of chapters 4 and 5, and chapter 6 examines iterative numerical techniques for finding optimal controls and trajectories. Numerous problems, intended to introduce additional topics as well as to illustrate basic concepts, appear throughout the text."

PART I: Describing the System and Evaluating Its Performance

1. Introduction
2. The Performance Measure

PART II: Dynamic Programming

3. Dynamic Programming

PART III: The Calculus of Variations and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

4. The Calculus of Variations
5. The Variational Approach to Optimal Control Problems

PART IV: Interative Numerical Techniques for Finding Optimal Controls and Trajectories

6. Numerical Determination of Optimal Trajectories

PART V: Conclusion

7. Summation

Appendices

1. Useful Matrix Properties and Definitions
2. Difference Equation Representation of Linear Sampled-Data Systems
3. Special Types of Euler Equations
4. Answers to Selected Problems

The book concludes with an Index.

Note from the publisher: "Dover (2004) unabridged republication of the edition published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970. 131 figures. 14 tables. Index x+452pp."