Optimal Control Course
This course equips you with advanced optimal control skills through designing fuel-efficient vertical rocket landings. Delve into dynamic modelling, constraint handling, Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle, and numerical solution techniques to develop reliable control strategies for complex engineering challenges in real-world scenarios.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain expertise in modelling one-dimensional vertical rocket dynamics, setting practical constraints, and examining phase-space patterns for secure and fuel-saving landings. Implement Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle, construct Hamiltonians, manage costates, solve boundary value problems via indirect shooting and direct transcription methods, and explore real-world applications with implementation tips.
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Develop skills
- Develop 1D rocket models by deriving, scaling, and applying constraints to vertical dynamics.
- Create fuel-optimal landing solutions by formulating and rapidly solving Pontryagin-based problems.
- Examine bang-bang control structures, determining switching times and phase-space paths.
- Utilise numerical optimal control methods like shooting, collocation, and mesh refinement effectively.
- Convert theoretical concepts into practical hardware implementations, addressing delays, noise, limits, and safety measures.
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