Browsing by Subject "Optimal Control"
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(2023-05-11)Solutions to differential equations form the bedrock of many guidance, navigation and control operations, such as state propagation and optimal control. While analytical solutions exist for a variety of problems, complex ...
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(2017-05-23)Buildings account for approximately 40% of all U.S. energy usage and carbon emissions. Reducing energy usage and improving efficiency in buildings has the potential for significant environmental and economic impacts. To ...
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(2021-04-13)Solving nonlinear optimal control problems can be a difficult and time intensive process. This is especially true when the state dynamics of the problem are computationally expensive to solve. Using the Theory of Functional ...
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(2017-07-27)Biochemical processing methods have been targeted as one of the potential renewable strategies for producing commodities currently dominated by the petrochemical industry. To design biochemical systems with the ability to ...
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(2022-06-22)The problem of Reinforcement Learning (RL) is equivalent to the search for an optimal feedback control policy from data without system dynamics information. Most RL techniques search over a complex global nonlinear ...
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(2017-12-08)Simultaneous localization and planning for nonlinear stochastic systems under process and measurement uncertainties is a challenging problem. In its most general form, it is formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)In this dissertation the solutions of the dynamics and real-time optimal control of magnetic attitude control and formation flying systems are presented. In magnetic attitude control, magnetic actuators for the time-optimal ...
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(2018-07-31)This research focuses on developing a helicopter autonomous ship landing algorithm based on the real helicopter ship landing procedure which is already proven and currently used by Navy pilots. It encompasses the entire ...
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(2018-07-31)This research focuses on developing a helicopter autonomous ship landing algorithm based on the real helicopter ship landing procedure which is already proven and currently used by Navy pilots. It encompasses the entire ...
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(2018-07-31)This research focuses on developing a helicopter autonomous ship landing algorithm based on the real helicopter ship landing procedure which is already proven and currently used by Navy pilots. It encompasses the entire ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)In recent years Boolean Networks (BN) and Probabilistic Boolean Networks (PBN) have become popular paradigms for modeling gene regulation. A PBN is a collection of BNs in which the gene state vector transitions according ...
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(2022-04-18)Optimal control methods for designing trajectories have been studied extensively by astro-dynamicists. Direct and indirect methods provide separate approaches to arrive at the optimal solution, each having their associated ...
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(2014-05-19)Many times it is necessary to reorient an aerial vehicle during flight in a minimum time or minimum fuel fashion. This thesis will present a minimum time/fuel control solution to reorienting an axisymmetric rigid body using ...
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(2015-05-11)In this Dissertation, computational and analytic methods are presented to address nonlinear systems with applications in structural and celestial mechanics. Scalar Homotopy Methods (SHM) are first introduced for the solution ...
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(2022-04-22)Electric propulsion is defining the space travel of this era with its more payload to fuel efficiency and ability to result in robust deep space missions. Moreover, the complex sub-systems of these low thrust engines (like ...
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(2022-03-04)Wheel loaders, one of the heavy equipment machinery are widely used in Construction and Mining industries. They typically transport loads over shorter distances. Due to their limited capacity, they have to perform repetitive ...
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(2019-07-08)Debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) poses a great risk to humanity’s access to space in the coming years. Seemingly the only way to prevent a full scale catastrophe rendering LEO unusable is to begin a series of active debris ...
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(2017-07-26)In this dissertation, we provide novel parametrization procedures for water-flooding production optimization problems, using polynomial approximation techniques. The methods project the original infinite dimensional controls ...
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(2012-02-14)In the past three decades, numerous methods have been proposed to transcribe optimal control problems (OCP) into nonlinear programming problems (NLP). In this dissertation work, a unifying weighted residual framework is ...