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  title info:
    title: Optimal Control with Aerospace Applications
  name:
    name part: Longuski, James M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Guzmán, José J.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Prussing, John E.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 273 p. 91 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Want to know not just what makes rockets go up but how to do it optimally? Optimal control theory has become such an important field in aerospace engineering that no graduate student or practicing engineer can afford to be without a working knowledge of it. This is the first book that begins from scratch to teach the reader the basic principles of the calculus of variations, develop the necessary conditions step-by-step, and introduce the elementary computational techniques of optimal control. This book, with problems and an online solution manual, provides the graduate-level reader with enough introductory knowledge so that he or she can not only read the literature and study the next level textbook but can also apply the theory to find optimal solutions in practice. No more is needed than the usual background of an undergraduate engineering, science, or mathematics program: namely calculus, differential equations, and numerical integration. Although finding optimal solutions for these problems is a complex process involving the calculus of variations, the authors carefully lay out step-by-step the most important theorems and concepts. Numerous examples are worked to demonstrate how to apply the theories to everything from classical problems (e.g., crossing a river in minimum time) to engineering problems (e.g., minimum-fuel launch of a satellite). Throughout the book use is made of the time-optimal launch of a satellite into orbit as an important case study with detailed analysis of two examples: launch from the Moon and launch from Earth. For launching into the field of optimal solutions, look no further! .
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter One: Parameter Optimization -- Chapter Two: Optimal Control Theory -- Chapter Three: The Euler-Lagrange Theorem -- Chapter Four: Application of the Euler-Lagrange Theorem -- Chapter Five: The Weierstrass Condition -- Chapter Six: The Minimum Principle -- Chapter Seven: Some Applications -- Chapter Eight: Weierstrass-Erdmann Corner Conditions -- Chapter Nine: Bounded Control Problems -- Chapter Ten: General Theory of Optimal Rocket Trajectories -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
  note: by James M Longuski, José J. Guzmán, John E. Prussing.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Differential equations
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Control engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Control
  subject:
    topic: Ordinary Differential Equations
  subject:
    topic: Applied and Technical Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  classification: TJ212-225
  classification: 629.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Space Technology Library ; 32
  identifier: 9781461489450
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8945-0
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