ON THE CONVERGENCE OF A NUMERICAL METHOD FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS.
Abstract
A recent method for the numerical solution of certain types of optimal control problems consists in discretizing the problem, that is, in replacing differential equations by difference equations and integral functionals of continuous functions by functions of finitely many variables; the solution of the resulting mathematical programming problem is taken as an approximate solution for the control problem. In this paper we prove, under intuitively reasonable assumptions, the convergence of this process as the discretization size tends to zero. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0675792
Entities
People
- James W. Daniel
Organizations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison