Optimal control theory with aerospace applications / Joseph Z. Ben-Asher.

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Superior document:AIAA education series
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:AIAA education series.
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Physical Description:xvii, 262 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Historical background
  • Ordinary minimum problems : from the beginning of calculus to Kuhn-Tucker
  • Calculus of variations : from Bernoulli to Bliss
  • Minimum principle of Pontryagin and Hestenes
  • Application of the Jacobi test in optimal control and neighboring extremals
  • Numerical techniques for the optimal control problem
  • Singular perturbation technique and its application to air-to-space interception
  • Application to aircraft performance : Rutowski and Kaiser's techniques and more
  • Application to rocket performance : the Goddard problem
  • Application to missile guidance : proportional navigation
  • Application to time-optimal rotational maneuvers of flexible spacecraft.