Course Details for A.Y. 2017/2018

Course Objectives

The main objective is to give the tools for the design of open loop and closed loop optimal controls, mainly with the help of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, for linear and nonlinear dynamical systems.

Course Content

•     - Unconstrained static optimization
•     - Static optimization under constraints    
•     - Static solution of constrained optimal control for discrete time systems    
•  - Pontryagin's Maximum Principle    
•  - Optimal control with finite horizon, with unconstrained and constrained final state. Time optimal control.    
•  - Linear quadratic problems, with finite and infinite horizon.    
•  - Advanced optimal control problems and Engineering Applications

Prerequisites and Learning Activities

The students of this course should be familiar with systems theory and with the state space description of dynamic systems, in continuous and in discrete time domain.     

Assessment Methods and Criteria

This course requires completion of written and oral final examinations. Advanced optimal control problems and Engineering Applications are assigned as individual or group work to the students, who will give seminars to the colleagues, in the final part of the course

Textbooks

• D. Liberzon, Calculus of variations and optimal control theory , Princeton University Press.    

Notes

• Si veda anche la pagina sul vecchio sito di ingegneria: http://www.ing.univaq.it/cdl/scheda_corso.php?codice=I2I015

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