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Optimization

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 352-0910/03
Abbreviation O
Course title Optimization
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Control Systems and Instrumentation
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Miluše Vítečková, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Optimality criteria, conditions for optimality, constrains, forms of solution. The analytical and numerical methods of minimization of functions of single and several variables, equality constrains, inequality constrains, Kuhn-Tucker conditions, saddle point conditions. Minimization of functionals, optimal control problems. Bellman’s principle of optimality and dynamic programming. Pontryagin’s minimum principle. Calculus of variations. The method of ag-gregation of state variables in optimal control.

Literature

LEWIS, F. L., SYRMOS, V. L. Optimal Control. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-471-03378-2.
PINCH, E. R. Optimal Control and the Calculus of Variations. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993, ISBN 0-19-853217-2.
RARDIN, R. L. Optimization in Operations Research. Second Edition. Pearson Higher Education, Hoboken, 2017, ISBN 978-0-13-438455-9 .
RAVINDRAN, A., RAGSDELL, K. M., REKLAITIS, G. Engineering Optimization. Methods and Applications. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, 2006, ISBN-13 978-0-471-53814-9 

http://books.fs.vsb.cz/StatickaOptimalizace/index.htm
http://books.fs.vsb.cz/Agregace/index.html

Advised literature

ALEXEJEV, V. M., Tichomirov, V. M., FOMIN, S. V. Matematická teorie optimálních procesů. Academia, Praha, 1991, ISBN 80-200-0319-3.
BURNS, J. A. Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4665-7139-1 .