Instructor : Eugene M. Cliff
email : cliff@icam.vt.edu
Phone : 231 7667
Office : 219C Randolph
and : the Wright House

• Course Overview for AOE 5244 (4k)
• Lecture_1 Set_A (78k)
• Lecture_1 Set_B (67k)
• Notes on Linear Algebra (90k)
• Lecture_2 Set_A (27k)
• Implicit Function Theorem (50k)
• Lecture_3 Set_A (70k)
• Lecture_3 Set_B (60k)
• Lecture_3 Set_C (37k)
• Lecture_4 Set_A (52k)
• Matlab implementation of algorithm U
  • Driver .m file (revised)
  • onedim.m
  • quadratic example
  • Rosenbrock example
• Lecture_4 Set_B (60k)
• Lecture_4 Set_C (26k)
• Lecture_4 Set_D (78k)
• Matlab files to demonstrate Trust_region ideas
  • trust_demo_.m
  • quadratic.m
• Lecture_5 Set_A (41k)
• Lecture_5 Set_B (65k)
• Lecture_5 Set_C (33k)
• Notes on Lagrangian based methods (108k)
• Lecture Slides on Linear Time Optimal (95k)
• Notes on Linear Time Optimal (87k)
• Time Optimal Example - Bushaw's Problem (30k)
• Attainable Set for Bushaw's Problem (a Matlab script)
• Pontryagin's Minimum Principle (37k)
• Minimum Principle Example - Zermelo's Problem (32k)
• Minimum Principle - Initial Transversality (35k)
• Minimum Principle - Mayer cost functional (47k)
• Matlab files for Orbit transfer as TPBVP
  • Main script file
  • residual evaluation
  • rhs of state/adjoint system
  • plotting routine
• Minimum Principle - Numerical Issues (51k)
• Minimum Principle - State Dependent Control Bounds (66k)

• H.W. Set #1 (23k)
• H.W. Set #2 (38k)
• H.W. Set #3 (32k)
• H.W. Set #4 (33k)
• Matlab files for an Augmented Lagrangian
  • Augmented_lagrangian driver
  • Generic cost-functional
  • Cost-functional for class example
  • Constraint function for class example
  • entrust.m code (new version 11/03/2000)
• Matlab files for an OTIS-like transcription
  • OTIS driver
  • initialization procedure
  • objective function
  • constraint function
  • grid - doubler
• Matlab files for an POST-like transcription
  • POST driver
  • initialization procedure
  • objective function
  • constraint function
  • rhs - driver
• Matlab files for a Zermelo example
  • data script file
  • Mayer functional
  • Gradient of the Mayer functional
  • right-hand side functions
  • Jacobian of rhs functions
  • End-conditions
  • Jacobian of the End-conditions
  • Matlab diary file for an OTIS run
  • Matlab diary file for a POST run

• Nelder Mead (220k)

• St Andrews University List
• List of 17/18th Century Mathematicians
• Optimization Technology Center