Weak Hamiltonian finite element method for optimal control problems

DOI10.2514/3.20616zbMath0739.49020OpenAlexW2095460349MaRDI QIDQ3984659

R. R. Bless, Dewey H. Hodges

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a49b77ecf9c0c9a7a0d2b953a5f629cfd332fe52

zbMATH Keywords

trajectory optimizationtemporal finite element methodmixed form of Hamilton's weak principlenonlinear time-marching problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential games and control (49N70) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Pursuit and evasion games (49N75) Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations (49K15) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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