INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY
Y. CHERRUAULT
(MEDIMAT 15, Rue de l'Ecole de Médecine 75270 PARIS CEDEX 06 (France))
J. GALLEGO
(MEDIMAT 15, Rue de l'Ecole de Médecine 75270 PARIS CEDEX 06 (France))
173
Abstract
Optimal Control theory is concerned with the problem of how to govern systems. Its purpose is to determine the best actions by which a given system can reach or maintain a particular state, these control actions being submitted to particular conditions called “constraints”. Mathematical formulations of such a problem may be very general, and then, the analysis and the results of this mathematical problem may be applied to numerous and varied concrete situations, from industrial processes to biology and medicine.
Citation
CHERRUAULT, Y. and GALLEGO, J. (1985), "INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY", Kybernetes, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 151-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005712
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1985, MCB UP Limited