Readings

All of the texts below have pretty much the same content, but each author focuses on different aspects with slightly different notation. Particularly useful ones are in bold.

Suggested Textbooks

Amazon logo Bertsekas, Dimitri. Nonlinear Programming. Nashua, NH: Athena Scientific, 1999. ISBN: 9781886529007.

Amazon logo Bryson, Arthur. Dynamic Optimization. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 1998. ISBN: 9780201361872.

Amazon logo Scales, L. E. Introduction to Non-Linear Optimization. New York, NY: Springer, 1985. ISBN: 9780387912523.

Amazon logo Gill, Philip, Walter Murray, and Margaret Wright. Practical Optimization. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780122839528.

Amazon logo Bryson, Arthur, and Yu-Chi Ho. Applied Optimal Control: Optimization, Estimation, and Control. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis, 1975. ISBN: 9780891162285.

Amazon logo Bryson, Arthur. Applied Linear Optimal Control: Examples and Algorithms. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780521012317.

Amazon logo Stengel, Robert. Stochastic Optimal Control. New York, NY: Wiley, 1986. ISBN: 9780471864622.

Amazon logo Athans, Michael, and Peter Falb. Optimal Controls. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1966. ISBN: 9780070024137.

Amazon logo Kirk, Donald. Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction. New York, NY: Dover, 2004. ISBN: 9780486434841.

Amazon logo Anderson, Brian, and John Moore. Linear Optimal Control. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971. ISBN: 9780135368701.

Amazon logo ———. Optimal Control: Linear Quadratic Methods. New York, NY: Dover, 2007. ISBN: 9780486457666.

Amazon logo Luenberger, David. Optimization by Vector Space Methods. New York, NY: Wiley, 1997. ISBN: 9780471181170.

Amazon logo Vincent, Thomas, and Walter Grantham. Nonlinear and Optimal Control Systems. New York, NY: Wiley, 1997. ISBN: 9780471042358.

Amazon logo Burl, Jeffrey. Linear Optimal Control. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780201808681.

Amazon logo Bellman, Richard. Dynamic Programming. New York, NY: Dover, 2003. ISBN: 9780486428093.

Amazon logo Bertsekas, Dimitri. Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control. Vol. 1 and 2. Nashua, NH: Athena Scientific, 2007. ISBN: 9781886529083.

Amazon logo Kwakernaak, Huibert, and Raphael Sivan. Linear Optimal Control Systems. New York, NY: Wiley, 1972. ISBN: 9780471511106.