Optimal control theory with aerospace applications
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Reston, VA
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvii, 262 p. : ill
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AIAA education series
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Joseph Z. Ben-Asher
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Historical background -- Ordinary minimum problems : from the beginning of calculus to Kuhn-Tucker -- Calculus of variations : from Bernoulli to Bliss -- Minimum principle of Pontryagin and Hestenes -- Application of the Jacobi test in optimal control and neighboring extremals -- Numerical techniques for the optimal control problem -- Singular perturbation technique and its application to air-to-space interception -- Application to aircraft performance : Rutowski and Kaiser's techniques and more -- Application to rocket performance : the Goddard problem -- Application to missile guidance : proportional navigation -- Application to time-optimal rotational maneuvers of flexible spacecraft