Foundations of optimal control theory

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• graycat · Jun 3, 2015 · Recommends

  …differential equations: Michael Athans and Peter L. Falb, 'Optimal Control: An Introduction to the Theory and Its Applications', McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1966. Also E. B. Lee and L. Markus, 'Foundations of Optimal Control Theory', ISBN 0471-52263-5, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1967. Once in graduate school I got a reading course to give a lecture a week from Coddington and Levinson, Athans and Falb, and Lee and Markus. The…

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• NY_USA_Hacker · May 25, 2011 · Mentions

  …York. this has likely the easiest mathematical treatment of deterministic optimal control and also Kalman filtering and also the math needed for 'least action' in physics. For E. B. Lee and L. Markus, 'Foundations of Optimal Control Theory', ISBN 0471-52263-5, John Wiley & Sons, New York. this tried to be clean mathematically when it was written. At the beginning, should know some relatively advanced results in ordinary differential equations,…

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• graycat · Jul 21, 2025 · Mentions

  …New York.\ \ Dimitri P.\ Bertsekas and Steven E.\ Shreve, {\it Stochastic Optimal Control: The Discrete Time Case,\/} ISBN 0-12-093260-1, Academic Press, New York.\ \ E.\ B.\ Lee and L.\ Markus, {\it Foundations of Optimal Control Theory,\/} ISBN 0471-52263-5, John Wiley, New York,

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• graycat · Aug 27, 2021 · Mentions

  …Hahn-Banach theorem. There may be more in L. S. Pontryagin, V. G. Boltyanskii, R. V. Gamkrelidze, and E. F. Mischenko, The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes. and in E. B. Lee and L. Markus, Foundations of Optimal Control Theory. and in Michael Athans and Peter L. Falb, Optimal Control: An Introduction to the Theory and Its Applications. At one time I was interested in such math as a way to say how best to climb, cruise, and…

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