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Optimal control theory with aerospace applications

Ben-Asher, Joseph Z., 1955-

Optimal control theory with aerospace applications [electronic resource] / Joseph Z. Ben-Asher. - Reston, Va. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., c2010. - xvii, 262 p. : ill. - AIAA education series . - AIAA education series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
Flight control.
Guided missiles--Control systems.


Electronic books.

TL589.4 / .B46 2010eb

629.132/6

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