Optimal Control Theory

What Hacker News says

1. antegamisouMay 2023
   > How do you actually plan and optimize the trajectory of a rocket?

   You're looking into Control Theory and specifically the field of Optimal Control.

   If you have some college Math {1,2}XX literacy, I remember

       Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction by Donald E. Kirk
   

   https://www.amazon.com/Optimal-Control-Theory-Introduction-E...

   having some chapter or two dedicated to trajectory optimization. Although it's not an easy reading by any means, it greatly serves its purpose as the title states; an adequate optimal control introductory. You really want a good grasp of optimal control's fundamentals before you go into trajectory/path optimization so it's advised you start from the very beginning.

   However in case you want an alternative to the book and wonder what trajectory optimization is about here's the relevant chapter of MIT's Underactuated Robotics course

   https://underactuated.mit.edu/trajopt.html

   whose parts are also good alternatives to the Kirk book.

   Show morethread
2. lmilcinJul 2021
   I am using Optimal Control Theory An Introduction from Donald Kirk and Modern Control Engineering from Katsuhiko Ogata.

   Both are heavy in math, but are not that difficult (I studied theoretical math some 20 years ago and I can read them).

   thread