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... We will approximate the PDE control problem (4.12a)–(4.14) by an ODE problem by partitioning the rod into N equal intervals. The values of N we will discuss here would be much too small if our goal were to solve ... See full document

... the control policy can only be computed assuming exponential terminal ...In practice, collection of accurate data and estimation of input parameters from data can be challenging and time ...bang-bang ... See full document

... both direct and indirect transmission mode of vector-borne ...basic practice for blood donation procedure, self-prevention effort and vector control strategy by health ...using optimal ... See full document

... and optimal control theory in a dual loop ...objective optimal control problem with given time of flight, minimising the propellant ...a direct transcription approach is ... See full document

... Singular control problems have been studied extensively in the optimal control community [4, 34, 38, 39, 56, 83, 89, 90, 97, 107, ...classical methods such as Taylor series expansion, ... See full document

... the optimal control problems with uncertain-but-bounded parameters ...analysis theory and its extension approaches including generalized Hukuhara method are employed to im- prove the proposed ... See full document

... Control theory is itself a mature field, with many critical questions not only an- swered, but definitively solved provably optimal ...whose control has largely been solved, with many ... See full document

... collocation methods based on Bernstein polynomials had an exponential convergence rate though slower than pseudo-spectral and Chebyshev collocation ...for optimal control ...nonlinear optimal ... See full document

... the theory of static ...The theory of dynamic optimization looks instead at problems whose unknowns are real ...to optimal control, is attributed to the Russian mathematician Lev Pontryagin ... See full document

... The basic idea of DFET is to discretise the time domain in several elements, and represent on each element both the states and controls as polynomials. The differential equations are not directly satisfied on the nodes ... See full document

... Jonsberg thus follows O’Reilley, Blitz and Hurlbert, and Nelson in arguing for a pedagogy that gives pride of place to the stories and voices of individual students, without in any way discounting the importance of the ... See full document

... expressivist theory and practice are connected to larger political and social ...to control their own lives, much less effect change in larger society,” the question at hand becomes: “How can we ... See full document

... When studying systems in interactive and online fashion, it is of high relevance to facilitate fast information gain during the interaction (Fedorov, 1972; Cohn, 1994). As an example, consider experiments aiming at the ... See full document

... Circular Economy proposes that industrial production imitate nature in biological space, in the biosphere. The authors of the cradle-to-cradle theory, McDonough and Braungart (2002), created the neologism ... See full document

... the control change and correspondingly the “state equations system ...the optimal control problem differ by signs from the state equations that is instead of speed the function opposite in sign to it ... See full document

... University of Warwick institutional repository: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/72032.. Th[r] ... See full document

... the control variational method to variational inequalities associated to the general linear elasticity system (for isotropic materials) are discussed in [14], ... See full document

... statistical methods in the examination and testing of quality through statistical control ...Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Total Quality Management (TQM), which emerged as a concept after ... See full document

... The GSTOC is state-space varying theories, such as optimal state optimal control of a control theory and parameter state Self- using a structure Kalman filters estimators, full General a[r] ... See full document

... All the same, the subject of the present work is commonly classified in the literature as vakonomic Mechanics. This terminology, first introduced by Arnold [2], is an abbre- viation for “Mechanics of variational ... See full document