Optimal Control Engineering With Matlab (Engineering Tools, Techniques And Tables)

Optimal Control Engineering With Matlab (Engineering Tools, Techniques and Tables)

For control engineers, optimal control is a tool to design a primal controller which secures system stability and fulfils a certain set of specifications via the optimisation of a specific performance index. In this way, troublesome trial-and-error controller tuning procedures are avoided. The next step is to assess the possibility of practical implementation, and this usually leads to a need to implement some controller trade-offs. To this end, this book aims to construct bridges between conventional parameter optimisation and the methods of optimal control theory.