Peter Moylan - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1970

Optimal Control in Nonlinear Systems Abstraef-Conditions on the nature of nonlinearities in highe... more Optimal Control in Nonlinear Systems Abstraef-Conditions on the nature of nonlinearities in higher order systems which permit determination of analytical solutions for the Hamiltow Jacobi equations arising in the classical optimal control problem of quadratic cost function minimization are presented. The possible applications of the study are illustrated with an example from the field of aerospace systems, namely, optimom stabilization of a rigid body with variable inertia.