Optimal Control and the Calculus of Variations - Couverture souple

Pinch, Enid R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198514891 ISBN 13 : 9780198514893

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

Synopsis

Optimal control is a modern development of the calculus of variations and classical optimization theory. For that reason, this introduction to the theory of optimal control starts by considering the problem of minimizing a function of many variables. It moves through an exposition of the calculus of variations, to the optimal control of systems governed by ordinary differential equations. This approach should enable students to see the essential unity of important areas of mathematics, and also allow optimal control and the Pontryagin maximum principle to be placed in a proper context. Although this book is written for the advanced undergraduate mathematician, engineers and scientists who regularly rely on mathematics will also find it a useful text.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A paperback edition of this successful textbook for final year undergraduate mathematicians and control engineering students, this book contains exercises and many worked examples, with complete solutions and hints making it ideal not only as a class textbook but also for individual study. The intorduction to optimal control begins by considering the problem of minimizing a function of many variables, before moving on to the main subject: the optimal control of systems governed by ordinary differential equations.

Biographie de l'auteur

Enid R. Pinch is at University of Manchester.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198514891
• ISBN 13: 9780198514893
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible