Dynamic programming and the computational solution of feedback design control problems.
ResearchPublished 1957
ResearchPublished 1957
An attempt to indicate how a certain class of control processes can be reduced to problems involving sequences of functions of one variable in a number of cases, and sequences of functions of two variables in others. The results of this paper may serve as a guide to a systematic study of nonlinear control processes, with or without time-lags and other types of hereditary behavior, by way of the method of successive approximations.
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