Pseudospectral methods for infinite-horizon optimal control problems

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 927-936

  Fahroo, Fariba ^a,b   Ross, I Michael ^b,c  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

^c Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MAPPING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS; DOMAIN TRANSFORMATION; INFINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS; LEGENDRE PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; NONLINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; VERIFICATION-AND-VALIDATION;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 48949100903     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.33117     Document Type: Article

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