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EE554 OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY

Course Code:	5670554
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Assoc.Prof.Dr. SEZAÝ EMRE TUNA
Offered Semester:	Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Examples of optimal control problems. Calculus of variations and necessary conditions of optimality. Pontryagin's maximum principle. Minimum time and minimum energy problems. Linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Computational algorithms such as steepest descent, variation of extremals, quasilinearization.