Pseudospectral methods for optimal motion planning of differentially flat systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1410-1413

  Ross, I Michael ^a   Fahroo, Fariba ^b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School ^*  (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION PLANNING; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENTIAL FLATNESS; LAGRANGE POLYNOMIALS; LEGENDRE PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344637586     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.832972     Document Type: Article

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