Coursebooks

Optimal control

EE-715

Lecturer(s) :

Faulwasser Timm

Language:

English

Frequency

Every 2 years

Remarque

Next time : Spring 2020

Summary

Content

The course will cover the following topics:

NLPs and optimal control

• Brief review on static optimization
• Pontryagin's maximum principle and necessary conditions of optimality (NCO)
• Turnpike and dissipativity properties in Optimal Control
  
  

Solution methods

• Analytical solution approach (type and sequence of arcs in optimal solutions)
• Indirect and direct solution techniques
• Direct sequential and simultaneous solution techniques
  
  

From optimal to sampled-data predictive control

• Stability and convergence properties
• Economic MPC approaches
• Case studies from mechatronics, process systems and climate economics

Assessment methods

Project Report.