Correspondence item: Suboptimal feedback control for nonlinear systems

  • Authors:
  • W. L. Garrard

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics and Center for Control Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 USA

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

A method is presented for synthesizing suboptimal feedback control laws for nonlinear systems optimized with respect to a quadratic performance index. The proposed method allows the designer to easily calculate a second-order approximation to the optimal control.