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Book Optimal Control Theory Applied to Systems Described by Partial Differential Equations  Vol  1 of Final Report

Download or read book Optimal Control Theory Applied to Systems Described by Partial Differential Equations Vol 1 of Final Report written by W. L. Brogan and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of optimal control problems for distributed parameter systems is intimately connected to the study of partial differential equations and/or integral equations involving two or more independent variables. The primary purpose of the dissertation is to investigate the application of optimal control theory to systems described by partial differential equations. The intent is not to advance the theory of partial differential equations per se. Thus all considerations will be restricted to the more familiar equations of the type which often occur in mathematical physics. Specifically, the distributed parameter systems under consideration are represented by a set of field equations.

Book Control Theory for Partial Differential Equations  Volume 1  Abstract Parabolic Systems

Download or read book Control Theory for Partial Differential Equations Volume 1 Abstract Parabolic Systems written by Irena Lasiecka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First of a two-volume treatise on deterministic control systems modeled by multi-dimensional partial differential equations, originally published in 2000.

Book Control Theory of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations

Download or read book Control Theory of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations written by A.K. Aziz and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Control Theory of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations covers the proceedings of the 1976 Conference by the same title, held at the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring, Maryland. The purpose of this conference is to examine the control theory of partial differential equations and its application. This text is divided into five chapters that primarily focus on tutorial lecture series on the theory of optimal control of distributed systems. It describes the many manifestations of the theory and its applications appearing in the other chapters. This work also presents the principles of the duality and asymptotic methods in control theory, including the variational principle for the heat equation. A chapter highlights systems that are not of the linear quadratic type. This chapter also explores the control of free surfaces and the geometrical control variables. The last chapter provides a summary of the features and applications of the numerical approximation of problems of optimal control. This book will prove useful to mathematicians, engineers, and researchers.

Book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Book Optimal Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations

Download or read book Optimal Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations written by Jacques-Louis Lions and published by Springer. This book was released on 1971 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Control Theory for Partial Differential Equations  Volume 2  Abstract Hyperbolic like Systems Over a Finite Time Horizon

Download or read book Control Theory for Partial Differential Equations Volume 2 Abstract Hyperbolic like Systems Over a Finite Time Horizon written by Irena Lasiecka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second of a two-volume treatise on deterministic control systems modeled by multi-dimensional partial differential equations.

Book Optimization  Optimal Control and Partial Differential Equations

Download or read book Optimization Optimal Control and Partial Differential Equations written by Viorel Barbu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variational methods in mechanics and physical models.- Fluid flows in dielectric porous media.- The impact of a jet with two fluids on a porous wall.- Critical point methods in nonlinear eigenvalue problems with discontinuities.- Maximum principles for elliptic systems.- Exponential dichotomy of evolution operators in Banach spaces.- Asymptotic properties of solutions to evolution equations.- On some nonlinear elastic waves biperiodical or almost periodical in mechanics and extensions hyperbolic nonlinear partial differential equations.- The controllability of infinite dimensional and distributed parameter systems.- Singularities in boundary value problems and exact controllability of hyperbolic systems.- Exact controllability of a shallow shell model.- Inverse problem: Identification of a melting front in the 2D case.- Micro-local approach to the control for the plates equation.- Bounded solutions for controlled hyperbolic systems.- Controllability and turbulence.- The H? control problem.- The H? boundary control with state feedback; the hyperbolic case.- Remarks on the theory of robust control.- The dynamic programming method.- Optimality and characteristics of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations.- Verification theorems of dynamic programming type in optimal control.- Isaacs' equations for value-functions of differential games.- Optimal control for robot manipulators.- Control theory and environmental problems: Slow fast models for management of renewable ressources.- On the Riccati equations of stochastic control.- Optimal control of nonlinear partial differential equations.- A boundary Pontryagin's principle for the optimal control of state-constrained elliptic systems.- Controllability properties for elliptic systems, the fictitious domain method and optimal shape design problems.- Optimal control for elliptic equation and applications.- Inverse problems for variational inequalities.- The variation of the drag with respect to the domain in Navier-Stokes flow, .- Mathematical programming and nonsmooth optimization.- Scalar minimax properties in vectorial optimization.- Least-norm regularization for weak two-level optimization problems.- Continuity of the value function with respect to the set of constraints.- On integral inequalities involving logconcave functions.- Numerical solution of free boundary problems in solids mechanics.- Authors' index

Book Reactor and Fuel processing Technology

Download or read book Reactor and Fuel processing Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

Download or read book Control of Distributed Parameter Systems written by S. P. Banks and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Control of Distributed Parameter Systems covers the proceedings of the Second IFAC Symposium, Coventry, held in Great Britain from June 28 to July 1, 1977. The book focuses on the methodologies, processes, and techniques in the control of distributed parameter systems, including boundary value control, digital transfer matrix, and differential equations. The selection first discusses the asymptotic methods in the optimal control of distributed systems; applications of distributed parameter control theory of a survey; and dual variational inequalities for external eigenvalue problems. The book also ponders on stochastic differential equations in Hilbert space and their application to delay systems and linear quadratic optimal control problem over an infinite time horizon for a class of distributed parameter systems. The manuscript investigates the semigroup approach to boundary value control and stability of nonlinear distributed parameter systems. Topics include boundary control action implemented through a dynamical system; classical boundary value controls; stability of nonlinear systems; and feedback control on the boundary. The text also focuses on the functional analysis interpretation of Lyapunov stability; method of multipliers for a class distributed parameter systems; and digital transfer matrix approach to distributed system simulation. The selection is a dependable source of data for readers interested in the control of distributed parameter systems.

Book Invariant Imbedding

Download or read book Invariant Imbedding written by R.E. Bellman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imbedding is a powerful and versatile tool for problem solving. Rather than treat a question in isolation, we view it as a member of a family of related problems. Each member then becomes a stepping stone in a path to a simultaneous solution of the entire set of problems. As might be expected, there are many ways of accomplishing this imbedding. Time and space variables have been widely employed in the past, while modern approaches combine these structural features with others less immediate. Why should one search for alternate imbeddings when elegant classical formalisms already exist? There are many reasons. To begin with, different imbeddings are useful for different purposes. Some are well suited to the derivation of existence and uniqueness theorems, some to the derivation of conservation relations, some to perturbation techniques and sensitivity analysis, some to computa tional studies. The digital computer is designed for initial value problems; the analog computer for boundary-value problems. It is essential then to be flexible and possess the ability to use one device or the other, or both. In economics, engineering, biology and physics, some pro cesses lend themselves more easily to one type of imbedding rather than another. Thus, for example, stochastic decision processes are well adapted to dynamic programming. In any case, to go hunting in the wilds of the scientific world armed with only one arrow in one's quiver is quite foolhardy.

Book Optimization Methods and Applications

Download or read book Optimization Methods and Applications written by Xiao-qi Yang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is dedicated to Professor N. U. Ahmed, a leading scholar and a renowned researcher in optimal control and optimization on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa in 1999. The contributions of this volume are in the areas of optimal control, non linear optimization and optimization applications. They are mainly the im proved and expanded versions of the papers selected from those presented in two special sessions of two international conferences. The first special session is Optimization Methods, which was organized by K. L. Teo and X. Q. Yang for the International Conference on Optimization and Variational Inequality, the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1998. The other one is Optimal Control, which was organized byK. ~Teo and L. Caccetta for the Dynamic Control Congress, Ottawa, 1999. This volume is divided into three parts: Optimal Control; Optimization Methods; and Applications. The Optimal Control part is concerned with com putational methods, modeling and nonlinear systems. Three computational methods for solving optimal control problems are presented: (i) a regularization method for computing ill-conditioned optimal control problems, (ii) penalty function methods that appropriately handle final state equality constraints, and (iii) a multilevel optimization approach for the numerical solution of opti mal control problems. In the fourth paper, the worst-case optimal regulation involving linear time varying systems is formulated as a minimax optimal con trol problem.

Book Power Reactor Technology and Reactor Fuel Processing

Download or read book Power Reactor Technology and Reactor Fuel Processing written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to Optimal Control Theory

Download or read book Introduction to Optimal Control Theory written by Jack Macki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is an introduction to optimal control theory for systems governed by vector ordinary differential equations. It is not intended as a state-of-the-art handbook for researchers. We have tried to keep two types of reader in mind: (1) mathematicians, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in mathematics who want a concise introduction to a field which contains nontrivial interesting applications of mathematics (for example, weak convergence, convexity, and the theory of ordinary differential equations); (2) economists, applied scientists, and engineers who want to understand some of the mathematical foundations. of optimal control theory. In general, we have emphasized motivation and explanation, avoiding the "definition-axiom-theorem-proof" approach. We make use of a large number of examples, especially one simple canonical example which we carry through the entire book. In proving theorems, we often just prove the simplest case, then state the more general results which can be proved. Many of the more difficult topics are discussed in the "Notes" sections at the end of chapters and several major proofs are in the Appendices. We feel that a solid understanding of basic facts is best attained by at first avoiding excessive generality. We have not tried to give an exhaustive list of references, preferring to refer the reader to existing books or papers with extensive bibliographies. References are given by author's name and the year of publication, e.g., Waltman [1974].

Book U S  Government Research   Development Reports

Download or read book U S Government Research Development Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: