Optimal control theory with aerospace applications / Joseph Z. Ben-Asher.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ben-Asher, Joseph Z., 1955-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Reston, VA : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ©2010.
Series:	AIAA education series.
Subjects:	Automatic pilot (Airplanes) Flight control. Guided missiles > Control systems. Control theory > Mathematical models. Airplanes > Control systems. Guidance systems (Flight) Control theory. Aeronautics. Control theory Aeronautics Airplanes > Control systems Control theory > Mathematical models Flight control Guided missiles > Control systems
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Table of 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.

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