Nonlinear Programming

Nonlinear Programming
Author: Lorenz T. Biegler
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0898719380

This book addresses modern nonlinear programming (NLP) concepts and algorithms, especially as they apply to challenging applications in chemical process engineering. The author provides a firm grounding in fundamental NLP properties and algorithms, and relates them to real-world problem classes in process optimization, thus making the material understandable and useful to chemical engineers and experts in mathematical optimization.

Optimization and Control with Applications

Optimization and Control with Applications
Author: Liqun Qi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387242554

A collection of 28 refereed papers grouped according to four broad topics: duality and optimality conditions, optimization algorithms, optimal control, and variational inequality and equilibrium problems. Suitable for researchers, practitioners and postgrads.

Nonlinear Optimization Applications Using the GAMS Technology

Nonlinear Optimization Applications Using the GAMS Technology
Author: Neculai Andrei
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-06-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461467977

Here is a collection of nonlinear optimization applications from the real world, expressed in the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS). The concepts are presented so that the reader can quickly modify and update them to represent real-world situations.

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization
Author: G. Di Pillo
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2014-05-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483105474

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization presents the proceedings of the Fifth IFAC Workshop held in Capri, Italy on June 11-14, 1985. The book covers various aspects of the optimization of control systems and of the numerical solution of optimization problems. The text also discusses specific applications concerned with the optimization of aircraft trajectories, of mineral and metallurgical processes, of wind tunnels, and of nuclear reactors. The book also considers computer-aided design of control systems. The book is useful to mathematicians, engineers, and computer engineers.

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization 1989

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization 1989
Author: H.B. Siguerdidjane
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-07-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483298140

These Proceedings provide valuable information on the exchange of ideas between scientists who apply nonlinear programming and optimization to real world control problems and those who develop new methods, algorithms and software. The papers deal with windshear problems, optimization of aircraft and spacecraft trajectories, optimal control for robots, the optimization of urban traffic control, general mechanical systems, multilevel inventory systems and robust control.

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming
Author: H. E. Rauch
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483150410

Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming contains the proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control Workshop on Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming, held in Denver, Colorado, on June 21, 1979. The workshop provided a forum for discussing the application of optimal and nonlinear programming techniques to real-life control problems. The volume covers a variety of specific applications ranging from microprocessor control of automotive engines and optimal design of structures to optimal aircraft trajectories, system identification, and robotics. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book begins by describing the application of nonlinear programming to an optimum design problem coming from mechanical engineering. The reader is then introduced to a nonlinear regulator design for magnetic suspension; optimal control solution of the automotive emission-constrained minimum fuel problem; and nonlinear programming for system identification. Subsequent chapters focus on mathematical programming algorithms based on Lagrangian functions for solving optimal control problems; computer-aided design via optimization; optimal and suboptimal control of oscillating dynamical systems; and the application of nonlinear programming to the solution of optimal output-constrained regulator problems. This monograph will be of interest to mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers.

Applications of Nonlinear Programming to Optimization and Control

Applications of Nonlinear Programming to Optimization and Control
Author: H. E. Rauch
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1483148394

Applications of Nonlinear Programming to Optimization and Control is a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Federation of Automatic Control Workshop by the same title, held in San Francisco, California on June 20-21, 1983. This workshop aims to exchange information on the applications of optimization and nonlinear programming techniques to real-life control problems, to investigate ideas that arise from these exchanges, and to look for advances in nonlinear programming that are useful in solving control problems. This book is divided into 16 chapters. It covers a wide range of related topics, starting with computer-aided-design of practical control systems, continuing through advanced work on quasi-Newton methods and gradient restoration algorithms. Other chapters provide specific examples, which apply these methods to representative problems. The remaining chapters present examples, including trajectory optimization, optimal design of a structure for a satellite, identification of hovercraft characteristics, determination of optimal electricity generation, and optimal automatic transmission for road vehicles. This book is of value to computer scientists and mathematicians.