Optimal Control Systems

Optimal control systems is a topic that is widely used in several fields' like transportation, aerospace bio-informatics and economics. The goal of this course is to provide advanced knowledge in formulating an optimal control problem, analyzing its properties and then solving the problem using various linear and nonlinear optimization based techniques. The course is theoretical but has implementation and problem solving components.

1. Formulate an optimal control problem for different performance indices
2. Analyze the optimal control problem using variational approach and Pontryagin minimum principal
3. Solve optimal control problems using various open source solvers