This continues an approach to the teaching of optimal control to engineering undergraduates and extends the linear cost results to the case of minimum energy/minimum fuel type problems. The treatment is rigorous but simple and gives direct insight into essential optimization concepts and the difficulties arising in numerical optimization methods.
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