DocumentCode
2706714
Title
1696: the birth of optimal control
Author
Willems, Jan C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math., Groningen Univ., Netherlands
Volume
2
fYear
1996
fDate
11-13 Dec 1996
Firstpage
1586
Abstract
The history of optimal control starts in 1696 in Groningen, a university town in the North of the Netherlands, with the story of the brachystochrone and Johann Bernoulli. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Groningen from 1695 to 1705. The purpose of this talk is to explain the problem, sketch the solution, and tell a bit about the historical context in which it took place
Keywords
history; optimal control; Groningen; brachystochrone; historical context; optimal control; Books; Cities and towns; Control systems; Geometrical optics; History; IEEE news; Mathematics; Optimal control; Propulsion; Shape;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Decision and Control, 1996., Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Kobe
ISSN
0191-2216
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3590-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CDC.1996.572753
Filename
572753
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