Optimal Control Course
Gain mastery in optimal control through designing fuel-efficient vertical rocket landings. The course covers essential modeling techniques, constraint handling, Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle application, and numerical solving methods to develop strong, practical control strategies suited for challenging engineering tasks in real-world scenarios.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course teaches modeling of one-dimensional vertical rocket dynamics, setting realistic constraints, and examining phase-space behavior to achieve safe and fuel-efficient landings. Learners apply Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle, construct Hamiltonians, manage costates, solve boundary value problems via indirect shooting and direct transcription methods, and explore practical extensions with implementation tips for actual systems.
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Develop skills
- Build one-dimensional rocket models by deriving, scaling, and applying constraints to vertical dynamics for effective control.
- Design fuel-optimal landing trajectories by formulating and rapidly solving control problems based on Pontryagin’s principle.
- Analyze bang-bang control strategies by calculating switching times and plotting phase-space paths.
- Implement numerical optimal control techniques including shooting methods, collocation, and mesh refinement for practical use.
- Convert theoretical concepts into hardware applications by addressing delays, noise, physical limits, and safety margins.
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