Matthew J. Moye

Hey Matt, Thanks for the reply. Additionally, I was wondering about circumstances in which one would be trying to consider taking derivatives of the dynamics with respect to not only the variables / controls, but certain (time-invariant) parameters. Namely, we have F(X(t), U(t), theta) , and our final VOD is something like [X(t) ,U(t), theta] at some fixed times t, plus any additional parameters that may exist in the constraints/ objective function. To relate it to one of the examples, suppose 'g'...

Hello, I was reading the 2015 optimal control paper https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2015-1085. I noticed that, compared to some examples made available in the package, in example 3 on space station attitude control, the objective incorporates an energy minimization of the control. In the ADiGator user manual in section 8.3, it states that "Furthermore, one may not sum over any vectorized dimension, as this results in derivatives of the output being dependent upon all points in time." My interpretation...