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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: HockingPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.337kg ISBN: 9780198596820ISBN 10: 0198596820 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 14 February 1991 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsOptimal 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; IndexReviews'The author has succeeded in creating a very self-contained book which introduces the reader to both the Pontryagin maximum principle and a wide range of applications.' Short Book Reviews 'a thoroughly readable working text for either postgraduate or undergraduate study ... The important concepts are introduced and illustrated by simple examples and there are many lively exercises, with appended solutions.' Mathematika, 38 (1991) 'The book gives an introductory text for those approaching the topic for the first time and without sophisticated mathematical analysis at their disposal ... the book is clearly written and the subject is well presented. The structure of the book has been carefully selected. The exercises will help in a deeper study of this subject.' Andrzej J. Osiadacz, Warsaw University of Technology, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 7 (1993) 'The book gives an introductory text for those approaching the topic for the first time and without sophisticated mathematical analysis at their disposal ... the book is clearly written and the subject is well presented. The structure of the book has been carefully selected. The exercises will help in a deeper study of this subject.' Andrzej J. Osiadacz, Warsaw University of Technology, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 7 (1993) 'a thoroughly readable working text for either postgraduate or undergraduate study ... The important concepts are introduced and illustrated by simple examples and there are many lively exercises, with appended solutions.' Mathematika, 38 (1991) `The author has succeeded in creating a very self-contained book which introduces the reader to both the Pontryagin maximum principle and a wide range of applications.' Short Book Reviews `The author has succeeded in creating a very self-contained book which introduces the reader to both the Pontryagin maximum principle and a wide range of applications.' Short Book Reviews 'a thoroughly readable working text for either postgraduate or undergraduate study ... The important concepts are introduced and illustrated by simple examples and there are many lively exercises, with appended solutions.' Mathematika, 38 (1991) 'The book gives an introductory text for those approaching the topic for the first time and without sophisticated mathematical analysis at their disposal ... the book is clearly written and the subject is well presented. The structure of the book has been carefully selected. The exercises will help in a deeper study of this subject.' Andrzej J. Osiadacz, Warsaw University of Technology, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 7 (1993) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |