Problems And Methods Of Optimal Control

The Numerous Applications Of Optimal Control Theory Have Given An Incentive To The Development Of Approximate Techniques Aimed At The Construction Of Control Laws And The Optimization Of Dynamical Systems. These Constructive Approaches Rely On Small Parameter Methods (averaging, Regular And Singular Perturbations), Which Are Well-known And Have Been Proven To Be Efficient In Nonlinear Mechanics And Optimal Control Theory (maximum Principle, Variational Calculus And Dynamic Programming). An Essential Feature Of The Procedures For Solving Optimal Control Problems Consists In The Necessity For Dealing With Two-point Boundary-value Problems For Nonlinear And, As A Rule, Nonsmooth Multi-dimensional Sets Of Differential Equations.