Optimal control theory with aerospace applications /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reston, VA :
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
2010
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| Series: | AIAA education series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Historical background
- Ordinary minimum problems : from the beginning of calculus to Kuhn-Tucker
- Calculus of variations : from Bernoulli to Bliss
- Minimum principle of Pontryagin and Hestenes
- Application of the Jacobi test in optimal control and neighboring extremals
- Numerical techniques for the optimal control problem
- Singular perturbation technique and its application to air-to-space interception
- Application to aircraft performance : Rutowski and Kaiser's techniques and more
- Application to rocket performance : the Goddard problem
- Application to missile guidance : proportional navigation
- Application to time-optimal rotational maneuvers of flexible spacecraft.
