Optimal Control Course
Master optimal control through designing fuel-efficient vertical rocket landings. Gain skills in modelling, constraints, Pontryagin’s principle, and numerical methods to develop robust control strategies for real-world engineering challenges. This course equips you with practical tools for demanding applications in aerospace and beyond.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Learn to model 1D vertical rocket dynamics, set realistic constraints, and study phase-space for safe, fuel-efficient landings. Master Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle, construct Hamiltonians, manage costates, solve boundary value problems via indirect shooting and direct transcription, and explore practical extensions for real systems.
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Develop skills
- Build 1D rocket models by deriving, scaling, and constraining vertical dynamics for control.
- Design fuel-optimal landings by posing and solving Pontryagin-based control problems quickly.
- Analyze bang-bang controls by computing switching times and phase-space trajectories.
- Apply numerical optimal control using shooting, collocation, and mesh refinement in practice.
- Translate theory to hardware by handling delays, noise, limits, and safety envelopes.
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