SOCLIR: A System for Optimal Control of Linear Regulators

摘要

SOCLIR is a software package for optimally controlling the output of a system to follow idealized time-paths. It provides a time sequence of control (policy) solutions that would regulate the system over time at minimum deviation. The linear regulator problem forms a special class of optimal control problems which is also called linear quadratic tracking problem; the system to be regulated is approximated by a linear model and both positive and negative deviations from the ideal time-path is penalized symmetrically in a quadratic cost function. The cost function also includes a cost attached to controlling the system. The theory is given in detail in the next section. (ERA citation 08:030985)