Optimal control theory with aerospace applications

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ben-Asher, Joseph Z., 1955-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2010.
SeriesAIAA education series.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781613440438
161344043X
1600867332
9781600867330
1600867324
9781600867323
1600867340
9781600867347
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations

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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.