15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
HIERARCHICAL MULTI-RESOLUTIONAL OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
Anand Dasgupta* S.N. Balakrishnan*    Levent Acar**
* Dept of Mechanical Aerospace
and Engineering Mechanics
** Dept. of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
University of Missouri-Rolla
Rolla, MO 65401
dasgupta@umr.edu, bala@umr.edu, acar@umr.edu

Abstract: Complex systems with a very large number of state and control variables are difficult to analyze. A multi level hierarchical control structure is proposed in this document. A method for goal propagation from the upper levels to the lower levels in the hierarchy is suggested.
Keywords: Hierarchical, Control, Optimization, Trajectory Planning, Large Scale Systems
Session slot T-Mo-A21: System Engineering, Management and Control Education/Area code 5a : Large Scale Systems