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DIRCOL
A direct collocation method for the numerical solution of multi-phase optimal control problems in systems of ordinary differential equations
Problem Class
optimal control problems of systems of ordinary differential equations, boundary value problems, general state and control constraints, multi-phase problems
Numerical Method
direct collocation method (piecewise polynomial approximation of state and control variables, SQP method)
Programming Language
FORTRAN 77, ANSI C
Interface Provided
a stand-alone program, input/output by files and problem dependent subroutines, visualization of computed trajectories
Examples of Applications
trajectory optimization of air and space vehicles, robot trajectory optimization, optimal design of microwave oscillators and others
More Information
references, documentation, user's guide, source code