This comprehensive text provides all information necessary for an introductory course on the calculus of variations and optimal control theory. Following a thorough discussion of the basic problem, including sufficient conditions for optimality, the theory and techniques are extended to problems with a free end point, a free boundary, auxiliary and inequality constraints, leading to a study of optimal control theory.
- ISBN10 0412051419
- ISBN13 9780412051418
- Publish Date 1 January 1995 (first published 1 June 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 656
- Language English