A Weighted Residual Framework for Formulation and Analysis of Direct Transcription Methods for Optimal Control

In the past three decades, numerous methods have been proposed to transcribe optimal control problems (OCP) into nonlinear programming problems (NLP). In this dissertation work, a unifying weighted residual framework is developed under which most of the existing transcription methods can be derived...

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Main Author: Singh, Baljeet
Other Authors: Bhattacharya, Raktim
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8688