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COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR OPTIMAL DESIGN AND CO...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Optimal Design and
Control  held in Arlington  Virginia  30 September-3 Octo ber  1997. The First Workshop was
held in Blacksburg  Virginia in 1994. The proceedings of that meeting also appeared in the
Birkhauser series on Progress in Systems and Control Theory and may be obtained through
Birkhauser. These workshops were sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Re search
through the Center for Optimal Design and Control (CODAC) at Vrrginia Tech. The meetings
provided a forum for the exchange of new ideas and were designed to bring together diverse
viewpoints and to highlight new applications. The primary goal of the workshops was to assess
the current status of research and to analyze future directions in optimization based design
and control. The present volume contains the technical papers presented at the Second Workshop.
More than 65 participants from 6 countries attended the meeting and contributed to its success.
It has long been recognized that many modern optimal design problems are best viewed as
variational and optimal control problems. Indeed  the famous problem of determining the body of
revolution that produces a minimum drag nose shape in hypersonic How was first proposed by
Newton in 1686. Optimal control approaches to design can provide theoretical and computational
insight into these problems. This volume contains a number of papers which deal with
computational aspects of optimal control.

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