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Optimal control theory with aerospace applications

Title
Optimal control theory with aerospace applications / Joseph Z. Ben-Asher.
Author
Ben-Asher, Joseph Z., 1955-
Publication
Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2010.

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Description
xvii, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
AIAA education series
Uniform Title
AIAA education series
Subject
  • Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
  • Flight control
  • Guided missiles > Control systems
  • Control theory
  • Aeronautics
  • Aviation
  • Control theory
  • Aeronautics
  • Flight control
  • Guided missiles > Control systems
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781600867323
  • 1600867324
LCCN
2009040734
OCLC
  • ocn459208376
  • 459208376
  • SCSB-9287149
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library