Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Control2012

<p>There are many methods of stable controller design for nonlinear systems. In seeking to go beyond the minimum requirement of stability, <i>Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Control</i> approaches the challenging topic of optimal control for nonlinear systems using the tools of adaptive dynamic programming (ADP). The range of systems treated is extensive; affine, switched, singularly perturbed and time-delay nonlinear systems are discussed as are the uses of neural networks and techniques of value and policy iteration.^

The text features three main aspects of ADP in which the methods proposed for stabilization and for tracking and games benefit from the incorporation of optimal control methods: <br>• infinite-horizon control for which the difficulty of solving partial differential...