2021-2022 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

ME 502 Optimal Control

Introduction to the principles and methods of the optimal control approach.  Topics include performance measures, dynamic programming, calculus of variations, Pontryagin's principle, optimal linear regulators, minimum-time and minimum-fuel problems, steepest descent, and quasi-linearization methods for determining optimal trajectories.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Admission to the MSME program, or permission of Engineering Department chair.

General Education

Offered

  • Fall