Numerical Optimal Control

Venue: Department of Industrial Engineering, Seminar room, via Sommarive 9, Povo- Trento, hour: 14:30-16:00,

• ENRICO BERTOLAZZI

Optimal control is an important field of applied mathematics with application in many science areas. The numerical approximation of the solution of an optimal control problem is a challenging task for many interesting problems, especially if the solution must be accurate and/or computed in little time.

In this talk the principal techniques used for the numerical approximation of optimal control problems are presented and discussed. In particular direct methods based on reduction to nonlinear programming and indirect methods based on the maximum principle of Pontryagin will be discussed and compared.

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