This self-contained book presents in a unified, systematic way the basic principles of optimal control governed by ODEs. Using a variational perspective, the au

This book focuses on how to implement optimal control problems via the variational method. It studies how to implement the extrema of functional by applying the

This textbook offers a concise yet rigorous introduction to calculus of variations and optimal control theory, and is a self-contained resource for graduate stu

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