Control derivative to optimal control analysis

Abstract

Optimal control theory, generally, is to determine the control signals which will cause a process to satisfy the physical constraints and at the same time optimize some performance criterion. In this work, a numerical method for finding solution to linear optimal control problems with bounded state constraints is examined. The method applied is based on Legendre series by parameterization of both the state and the control variables involving a derivative.

Journal of the Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics, Volume 15 (November, 2009), pp 399 - 404