Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Journal Title

Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Volume

2014

DOI

10.1002/oca.2110/pdf

Abstract

Modern computational power and efficient direct collocation techniques are decreasing the solution time required for the optimal control problem, making real-time optimal control (RTOC) feasible for modern systems. Current trends in the literature indicate that many authors are applying RTOC with a recursive open-loop structure, relying on a high recursion rate for implicit state feedback to counter disturbances and other unmodeled effects without explicit closed-loop control. The limitations of using rapid, instantaneous optimal solutions are demonstrated analytically and through application to a surface-to-air missile avoidance control system. Two methods are proposed for control structure implementation when using RTOC to take advantage of error integration through either classical feedback or disturbance estimation.

Keywords

Real-time optimal control, stochastic optimal control, optimal feedback control

Comments

This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

Included in

Engineering Commons

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.