Department of Engineering Cybernetics	NTNU
TK 8101 Optimal control of dynamic systems
	Spring 2008

Responsible: Professor Bjarne A. Foss (ONLY OFFERED AS SELF-STUDY COURSE)

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Course Description: Introduction to theory and methods for optimal control of time-continuous dynamic systems. Variational calculus, the Euler-Lagrange equations, picewise continuous extremals, Hamiltons principle, necessary and sufficient conditions, Pontryagins maximum principle.

LQ-control, the Hamilton-Jacobi Bellmann equation, the minimum principle. Examples from practical control systems.

Prerequisites: Course TTK4135 Optimization and Control or equivalent background.

Text:  Naidu (2003). Optimal Control Systems, CRC Press. 
Anderson and Moore (1990). Optimal Control - Linear Quadratic Methods, Prentice-Hall.

Note:  Some assigments require use of Matlab with the Tomlab Toolbox.

Exam: Not settled.

Curriculum

Solutions to computer assignments

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Web-sidene er laget av : Frode Martinsen Ansvarlig for innhold : Bjarne A. Foss Sist endret: 5. jan. 2004

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