Optimal Control with Engineering Applications

From the reviews:"The book is based on the lecture material for a one-semester senior-year undergraduate or first-year graduate course in optimal control given by the author at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) for more than twenty years. ... The book contains a variety of optimal control problems, many of which completely solved in details in the body of the text. Additional problems are given as exercises together with a sketch of the solutions." (Riccardo De Arcangelis, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1121 (23), 2007)"This 144-page book offers a concise introduction to optimal control theory and differential games, from the minimum principle (MP) to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) theory. ... The style of the book is simplistic, sacrificing rigor for accessibility, which is appropriate for the intended readership. ... This is a good, concise book on optimal control and differential games that can easily be adapted as a textbook for an introductory course on the subject either at the senior undergraduate level or as a first-year graduate-level course." (Panagiotis Tsiotras, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 31, October, 2011)