Optimal Design and Control: Proceedings of the Workshop on Optimal Design and Control Blacksburg, Virginia April 8–9, 1994 (Progress in Systems and Control Theory, 19) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817638083 ISBN 13: 9780817638085

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 1995

Synopsis

This volume is the proceedings of the Workshop on Optimal Design and Control that was held in Blacksburg, Virginia, April 8-9, 1994. The workshop was spon­ sored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Air Force Center for Optimal Design and Control (CODAC) at Virginia Tech. The workshop was a gathering of engineers and mathematicians actively in­ volved in innovative research in control and optimization, with emphasis placed on problems governed by partial differential equations. The interdisciplinary nature of the workshop and the wide range of subdisciplines represented by the partici­ pants enabled an exchange of valuable information and also led to significant dis­ cussions about multidisciplinary optimization issues. One of the goals of the work­ shop was to include laboratory, industrial, and academic researchers so that anal­ yses, algorithms, implementations, and applications could all be well-represented in the talks; this interdisciplinary nature is reflected in these proceedings. An overriding impression that can be gleaned from the papers in this volume is the complexity of problems addressed by not only those authors engaged in appli­ cations, but also by those engaged in algorithmic development and even mathemat­ ical analyses. Thus, in many instances, systematic approaches using fully nonlin­ ear constraint equations are routinely used to solve control and optimization prob­ lems, in some cases replacing ad-hoc or empirically based procedures.

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Review

"Those interested in multidisciplinary or cross-disciplinary design and control problems will find the book a unique source of ideas."

--Rubriken

Synopsis

With an emphasis on problems governed by partial differential equations, engineers and mathematicians engaged in research on control and optimization discuss analyses, algorithms, implementations, and applications. Among the 17 papers are considerations of shape optimization in one shot, the application of sparse least squares in aerospace design p

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0817638083
• ISBN 13: 9780817638085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Borggaard Jeff, Burkhardt John, Gunzburger Max, Peterson Janet