A Preliminary Study of Optimal Control Applied to Inspection, Rework and Inventory Operations,
Abstract
The major achievement of this research is the structuring of middle management decision making problems as an optimal control problem for a dynamical process. A combined quality assurance and inventory department is hypothesized for the process and typical management decisions are included as components of the control vector. Final value boundary conditions for target work force and inventory levels are assumed to be periodically furnished by upper echelon management. Initial values are assumed known. The criterion function is the sum over the planning horizon of weighted cost functions of state and control variables. Observation of the plant dynamics and resulting control actions occur at uniform discrete sampling intervals. The solution for the optimum control vectors is assumed to be computed by an on-line computer-controller in accordance with discrete maximum principle for synchronous sampling. As a result of the study, general steps are outlined for process identification by state variable methods and for approaches to the problem of optimal adaptive control. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0768174
Entities
People
- Daniel Raymond Turk
Organizations
- United States Army Materiel Command