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2 unusual facts about optimal control


Optimal control

APMonitor (Dynamic optimization platform for Python and MATLAB)

JModelica.org (Modelica-based open source platform for dynamic optimization)


Trajectory optimization

The first efforts were based on optimal control approaches which grew out of the calculus of variations developed at the University of Chicago in the first half of the 20th century most notably by Gilbert Ames Bliss.


see also

I. Michael Ross

Together with F. Fahroo, W. Kang and Q. Gong, Ross proved a series of results on the convergence of pseudospectral discretizations of optimal control problems.

Michael Ross

I. Michael Ross, American innovator and founder of pseudospectral optimal control theory