Optimal control problems for partial differential equations of evolution, mostly of parabolic type, are considered. The means of control are a nonhomogeneous boundary condition or forcing term. A hierarchical control problem ...

The aeroassisted flight experiment (AFE) is to simulate a transfer from a geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) to a low Earth orbit (LEO). Specifically, the AFE spacecraft is released from the Space Shuttle and is accelerated ...

A method for maximizing the distance from the spectrum of an analytic, symmetric matrix with distinct eigenvalues from a given frequency is proposed. The method models the classical approach from optimization of finding ...

The stationary response of a linear system excited by a stationary random process is considered. A previously developed approach is extended to determine both the even and odd integer order spectral moments of the system ...