Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems

The FORTRAN MISER software package has been used with great success over the past two decades to solve many practically important real world optimal control problems. However, MISER is written in FORTRAN and hence not user-friendly, requiring FORTRAN programming knowledge. To facilitate the practica...

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Main Authors: Yang, F., Teo, Kok Lay, Loxton, Ryan, Rehbock, Volker, Li, Bin, Yu, Changjun, Jennings, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31459
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author Yang, F.
Teo, Kok Lay
Loxton, Ryan
Rehbock, Volker
Li, Bin
Yu, Changjun
Jennings, L.
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Teo, Kok Lay
Loxton, Ryan
Rehbock, Volker
Li, Bin
Yu, Changjun
Jennings, L.
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description The FORTRAN MISER software package has been used with great success over the past two decades to solve many practically important real world optimal control problems. However, MISER is written in FORTRAN and hence not user-friendly, requiring FORTRAN programming knowledge. To facilitate the practical application of powerful optimal control theory and techniques, this paper describes a Visual version of the MISER software, called Visual MISER. Visual MISER provides an easy-to-use interface, while retaining the computational efficiency of the original FORTRAN MISER software. The basic concepts underlying the MISER software, which include the control parameterization technique, a time scaling transform, a constraint transcription technique, and the co-state approach for gradient calculation, are described in this paper. The software structure is explained and instructions for its use are given. Finally, an example is solved using the new Visual MISER software to demonstrate its applicability.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-314592019-02-19T05:35:33Z Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems Yang, F. Teo, Kok Lay Loxton, Ryan Rehbock, Volker Li, Bin Yu, Changjun Jennings, L. The FORTRAN MISER software package has been used with great success over the past two decades to solve many practically important real world optimal control problems. However, MISER is written in FORTRAN and hence not user-friendly, requiring FORTRAN programming knowledge. To facilitate the practical application of powerful optimal control theory and techniques, this paper describes a Visual version of the MISER software, called Visual MISER. Visual MISER provides an easy-to-use interface, while retaining the computational efficiency of the original FORTRAN MISER software. The basic concepts underlying the MISER software, which include the control parameterization technique, a time scaling transform, a constraint transcription technique, and the co-state approach for gradient calculation, are described in this paper. The software structure is explained and instructions for its use are given. Finally, an example is solved using the new Visual MISER software to demonstrate its applicability. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31459 10.3934/jimo.2016.12.781 American Institute of Mathematical Sciences fulltext
spellingShingle Yang, F.
Teo, Kok Lay
Loxton, Ryan
Rehbock, Volker
Li, Bin
Yu, Changjun
Jennings, L.
Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
title Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
title_full Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
title_fullStr Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
title_full_unstemmed Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
title_short Visual MISER: An efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
title_sort visual miser: an efficient user-friendly visual program for solving optimal control problems
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/31459