5 papers
Compact Formulation of the First Evolution Equation for Optimal Control Computation
Sheng Zhang, Fei Liao, Wei-Qi Qian
The first evolution equation is derived under the Variation Evolving Method (VEM) that seeks optimal solutions with the variation evolution principle. To improve the performance, i…
The Third Evolution Equation for Optimal Control Computation
Sheng Zhang, Fei Liao, Kai-Feng He
The Variation Evolving Method (VEM) that originates from the continuous-time dynamics stability theory seeks the optimal solutions with variation evolution principle. After establi…
Computation of Optimal Control Problems with Terminal Constraint via Modified Evolution Partial Differential Equation
Sheng Zhang, Kai-Feng He, Fei Liao
The Variation Evolving Method (VEM), which seeks the optimal solutions with the variation evolution principle, is further developed to be more flexible in solving the Optimal Contr…
Computation of Optimal Control Problems with Terminal Constraint via Variation Evolution
Sheng Zhang, Bo Liao, Fei Liao
Enlightened from the inverse consideration of the stable continuous-time dynamics evolution, the Variation Evolving Method (VEM) analogizes the optimal solution to the equilibrium…
Aircraft trajectory control with feedback linearization for general nonlinear system
Sheng Zhang, Fei Liao, Yanqing Chen +1
The feedback linearization method is further developed for the controller design on general nonlinear systems. Through the Lyapunov stability theory, the intractable nonlinear impl…