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Practical Methods for Optimal Control Using Nonlinear Programming

John T. Betts,I. Kolmanovsky

1987 · DOI: 10.1115/1.1483351
764 Citations

TLDR

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.

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.