Pseudospectral Optimal Control for Military and Industrial Applications

Abstract — During the last decade, pseudospectral methods for optimal control, the focus of this tutorial session, have been rapidly developed as a powerful tool to enable new applications that were previously considered impossible due to the complicated nature of these problems. The purpose of this tutorial section is to introduce this advanced technology to a wider community of control system engineering. We bring in experts of pseudospectral methods from academia, industry, and military and DoD to present topics covering a large spectrum of pseudospectral methods, including the theoretical foundation, numerical techniques of pseudospectral optimal control, and military/industry applications. Over the last few years, pseudospectral (PS) methods for solving optimal control problems have moved rapidly from mathematical theory to real-world applications. Fo