...Yajing Gu; Hongyan Yan; Yuanguo Zhu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an iterative Legendre technique to deal with a continuous optimal control problem (OCP). Design/methodology/approach For the system in the considered problem, the control variable is a function of the state...

... benchmark to the solution. The results are compared with the following techniques: Robust control, continuous PID control, discrete PID control, Optimal Control, Fuzzy Control and Artificial Neural Network based control. Comparisons are presented in terms of setting time and overshot. Originality/value...

... control In this paper, we study the optimal control of a <T, p>‐policy M/G/1 queue with second optional service (SOS) and general startup times in which the server is typically subject to unpredictable breakdowns. We say that the policy is a <T, p...

... as the performance index. Solutions to the optimal control problem yield disk designs that provide energy densities that are 13 percent greater than a benchmark design. In disks where the fiber angle is being varied, certain plies may experience compressive loads; therefore, the criterion should account...