Geared toward upper-level undergraduates, this text introduces three aspects of optimal control theory: dynamic programming, Pontryagin's minimum principle, and numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. Numerous problems, which introduce additional topics and illustrate basic concepts, appear throughout the text. Solution guide available upon request. 131 figures. 14 tables. 1970 edition.

Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction

Science & Math

Kirk, Donald E.

Mathematics

PRENTICE/HALL

This textbook presents both discrete systems and digital signal processing in a conversational style that relies on a minimum of mathematics. The authors use carefully crafted pedagogy and detailed examples to improve students' problem solving skills, to help them see interrelationships and connections, and to integrate new material with what they have seen in previous chapters. The book also provides a number of computer-based methods for solving problems.

First Principles of Discrete Systems and Digital Signal Processing

Computers & Technology

Strum, Robert D.

Software

Addison-Wesley

This book thoroughly integrates the use of the MATLAB computing environment into the standard sequence of courses taken by electrical engineering majors. Use of this text makes it possible to focus on the problems being solved rather than on the programming necessary to obtain a solution. The authors utilize a computer-biased approach in which computer solutions and theory are viewed as mutually reinforcing rather than as an either/or proposition. Additionally, they adhere to the axiom that one learns by doing rather than by listening - this text features more than 100 examples, 200 exercises, and 250 MATLAB scripts that directly support the authors' flexible treatment of discrete and continuous time.

Contemporary Linear Systems Using MATLAB (Pws Bookware Companion Series.)

Strum, Robert S.

Computer Science

Cengage Learning'

Launches a new series of self-contained book/disk packages covering fundamental topics in engineering and applied math and incorporating popular application software. MATLAB is widely used in academia and industry, and is the basis of this presentation of theory and problem-solving skills for linear systems. Prerequisites include basic background in calculus, differential equations, complex numbers, and matrix operations; programming expertise is not required, but familiarity with computers is assumed. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Contemporary Linear Systems: Using Matlab/Book and 3 Disks (Tom Robbins' Bookware Companion)

PWS Pub. Co.

Enter Strum and Kirks innovative virtual laboratory for the most effective instruction in linear systems or signals and systems. Designed from the ground up to integrate theory with computer solutions using MATLAB, this book redefines linear systems instruction to create a more powerful learning experience. Hundreds of MATLAB scripts on disk support the book, offering a hands-on, interactive environment in which users can change problem values and parameters at will...System Requirements:.The text includes both MS-DOS and Macintosh format disks. Both versions require either the Student Edition of MATLAB version 3.5 or the Professional version 3.5.

Contemporary Linear Systems Using MATLAB 4.0 (A volume in the PWS BookWare Companion Series)

CL-Engineering

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