ECSE 507. Optimization and Optimal Control.
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ECSE 507
Optimization and Optimal Control.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
General introduction to optimization methods including steepest descent, conjugate gradient, Newton algorithms. Generalized matrix inverses and the least squared error problem. Introduction to constrained optimality; convexity and duality; interior point methods. Introduction to dynamic optimization; existence theory, relaxed controls, the Pontryagin Maximum Principle. Sufficiency of the Maximum Principle.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite(s): ECSE 343 or ECSE 543 or ECSE501 or COMP 540 or MATH 247 or permission of the instructor.
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