This chapter addresses the time-optimal control system, where the performance measure is
the minimization of the transition time from initial state to any target or desired state. It also …

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the in dustrial
revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal …

Geared toward advanced undergraduate and graduate engineering students, this text
introduces the theory and applications of optimal control. It serves as a bridge to the …

This paper presents a numerical technique for solving non-linear constrained optimal control
problems. The method extends previous contributions to non-linear unconstrained optimal …

The necessary conditions are presented for an extremal solution to a programming problem
with an inequality constraint on a function of the control and/or the state variables. It is shown …

This paper gives a survey of the various forms of Pontryagin's maximum principle for optimal
control problems with state variable inequality constraints. The relations between the …

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A slack variable is used to transform an optimal control problem with a scalar control and a
scalar inequality constraint on the state variables into an unconstrained problem of higher …

A method is presented to systematically transform a general inequality-constrained optimal
control problem (OCP) into a new equality-constrained OCP by means of saturation …

The purpose of this paper is to present some recent developments in the field of
deterministic optimal control. Topics dealing with advances in the theory, as well as with …