Should controls be eliminated while solving optimal control problems via direct methods?

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 418-423

  Kumar, Renjith R ^a,b   Seywald, Hans ^a,b  

^a ANALYTICAL MECHANICS ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CALCULATIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COLLOCATION; CONTROL DISCRETIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSIONS METHOD; GODDARD PROBLEM; HODOGRAPH SPACE;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 0030108093     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.21634     Document Type: Article

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