Optimal Control : An Introduction to the Theory with Applications (Paperback)

Optimal control problems; Systems of differential equations, matrices, and sets; Part A Time-Optimal Control of Linear Systems: Controllability; Time-optimal control; Further examples; Part B The Pontryagin Maximum Principle: The basic Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP); Extensions to the PMP; Linear state equations with quadratic costs; Proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle; Further applications and extensions; Part C Applications of Optimal Control Theory: Some applied optimal control problems; Numerical methods for optimal control problems; Bibliography; Outline solutions to the exercises; Index