| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Introduction | 13 |
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| Optimal control | 22 |
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| 1.1 Statement of the optimal control problem | 22 |
| 1.2 The maximum principle | 27 |
| 1.3 Open-loop and feedback control | 32 |
| 1.4 Examples | 34 |
| Method of decomposition (the first approach) | 41 |
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| 2.1 Problem statement and game approach | 41 |
| 2.2 Control of the subsystem and feedback control design | 47 |
| 2.3 Weak coupling between degrees of freedom | 64 |
| 2.4 Nonlinear damping | 77 |
| 2.5 Applications and numerical examples | 92 |
| Method of decomposition (the second approach) | 112 |
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| 3.1 Problem statement and game approach | 112 |
| 3.2 Feedback control design and its generalizations | 121 |
| 3.3 Applications to robots | 140 |
| Stability based control for Lagrangian mechanical systems | 155 |
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| 4.1 Scleronomic and rheonomic mechanical systems | 155 |
| 4.2 Lyapunov stability of equilibrium | 159 |
| 4.3 Lyapunov’s direct method for autonomous systems | 159 |
| 4.4 Lyapunov’s direct method for nonautonomous systems | 161 |
| 4.5 Stabilization of mechanical systems | 161 |
| 4.6 Modification of Lyapunov’s direct method | 163 |
| Piecewise linear control for mechanical systems under uncertainty | 164 |
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| 5.1 Piecewise linear control for scleronomic systems | 164 |
| 5.2 Applications to mechanical systems | 177 |
| 5.3 Piecewise linear control for rheonomic systems | 206 |
| Continuous feedback control for mechanical systems under uncertainty | 220 |
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| 6.1 Feedback control for scleronomic system with a given matrix of inertia | 220 |
| 6.2 Control of a scleronomic system with an unknown matrix of inertia | 236 |
| 6.3 Control of rheonomic systems under uncertainty | 244 |
| Control in distributed-parameter systems | 251 |
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| 7.1 System of linear oscillators | 251 |
| 7.2 Distributed-parameter systems | 258 |
| 7.3 Solvability conditions | 269 |
| Control system under complex constraints | 280 |
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| 8.1 Control design in linear systems under complex constraints | 280 |
| 8.2 Application to oscillating systems | 286 |
| 8.3 Application to electro-mechanical systems | 308 |
| Optimal control problems under complex constraints | 332 |
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| 9.1 Time-optimal control problem under mixed and phase constraints | 333 |
| 9.2 Time-optimal control under constraints imposed on the rate of change of the acceleration | 345 |
| 9.3 Time-optimal control under constraints imposed on the acceleration and its rate of change | 359 |
| Time-optimal swing-up and damping feedback controls of a nonlinear pendulum | 371 |
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| 10.1 Optimal control structure | 372 |
| 10.2 Swing-up control | 376 |
| 10.3 Damping control | 384 |
| References | 392 |
| Index | 397 |