15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL OF A CLASS OF CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS GOVERNED BY PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Nicolas Petit* Mark Milam** Richard Murray**
* Centre Automatique et Systèmes
École des Mines de Paris
60, bd St Michel
75272 Paris, France
** Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Control and Dynamical Systems
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

A computationally efficient technique for the numerical solution of constrained optimal control problems governed by one-dimensional partial differential equations is considered in this paper. This technique utilizes inversion to map the optimal control problem to a lower dimensional space. Results are presented using the Nonlinear Trajectory Generation software package (NTG) showing that real-time implementation may be possible.
Keywords: Optimal Control, Partial Differential Equations, Inversion, Real-time, Computational methods
Session slot T-Tu-M17: Optimal Control/Area code 2d : Optimal Control