Journal Article10.1115/1.1483351
Practical Methods for Optimal Control Using Nonlinear Programming
John T. Betts,I. Kolmanovsky +1 more
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TL;DR: The optimal control problem is illustrated with examples of large, sparse nonlinear programming and a comparison of optimal control problems in the context of discrete-time programming.
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Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction to nonlinear programming 2. Large, sparse nonlinear programming 3. Optimal control preliminaries 4. The optimal control problem 5. Optimal control examples Appendix A. Software Bibliography, Index.
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