Optimal Control with Aerospace Applications

• Main Authors: Longuski, James M. (Author), Guzmán, José J. (Author), Prussing, John E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Space Technology Library ; 32
• Subjects: Engineering.; Differential equations.; Mechanics.; Physics.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Control engineering.; Control.; Ordinary Differential Equations.; Applied and Technical Physics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

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 sc...

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.