A general algebraic method of optimising a third order system is presented. The method consists of extending Pontryagin's Maximum Principle to the infinite interval case and reducing the characteristic two point boundary value problem to that of the solution to quartic equations. The index of performance considered was a quadratic which took saturation on the control vector into account.
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