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| Nov 12, 2010 at 1:49 | comment | added | Brian Borchers | I'm afraid that my answer would start with "take an introductory real analysis course, an introductory course in systems of ODE's, and an introductory course in optimization", so my advice is probably not going to be helpful to you. My background is in mathematics (and computer science) followed by graduate study in optimization, where there's a completely different collection of material that everyone is expected to know. I'd suggest that you look at books and lecture notes that have been written for engineers interested in learning about this stuff. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 0:58 | comment | added | Legend | @Brian Borchers: I've taken Undergrad level Calculus. I've read about Partial differential equations in the process. I have taken a course on Control Systems but that was more towards Laplace transforms and Z-Transforms. I don't remember hearing about optimal control anywhere. And yes, I've studied feedback as part of Control Systems where most of it was related to transfer functions and root locus determination. Its been almost 8 years since I've studied those so I'm feeling a little lost now when I look at bang-bang structure and maximum principles. | |
| Oct 29, 2010 at 0:39 | history | answered | Brian Borchers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |