John T. Betts

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How do you fly an airplane from one point to another as fast as possible? What is the best way to administer a vaccine to fight the harmful effects of disease? What is the most efficient way to produce a chemical substance? This book presents practical methods for solving real optimal control problems such as these.This third edition focuses on the direct transcription method for optimal control, and features: A summary of relevant material in constrained optimization, including nonlinear programming.Discretization techniques appropriate for ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations.Several examples and descriptions of computational algorithm formulations that implement this discretize-then-optimize strategy.The third edition has been thoroughly updated and includes:New material on implicit Runge–Kutta discretization techniques.New chapters on partial differential equations and delay equations.More than 70 test problems and open source FORTRAN code for all of the problems.This book will be valuable for academic and industrial research and development in optimal control theory and applications. It is appropriate as a primary or supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

This second edition of the popular text by John Betts incorporates lots of new material while maintaining the concise and focused presentation of the original edition. The book describes how sparse optimization methods can be combined with discretization techniques for differential-algebraic equations and used to solve optimal control and estimation problems. The interaction between optimization and integration is emphasized throughout the book. The relevant background in nonlinear programming methods that exploit sparse matrix technology is presented, along with description of discretization techniques for solving differential-algebraic equations. It will appeal to users of optimal control working in fields such as the aerospace industry, chemical process control, mathematical biology, robotics and multibody simulation, and engineering. It is also suitable for graduate courses on optimal control methods. The SOCS software referenced within the book can be licensed from Boeing by readers interested in receiving the code and training materials for further investigation.