Abstract: The present paper illustrates the potential of the adjoint method for a wide range of optimization problems in multibody dynamics such as inverse dynamics and parameter identification. Although the equations and matrices ...

Abstract: The adjoint method is a very efficient way to compute the gradient of a cost functional associated to a dynamical system depending on a set of input signals. However, the numerical solution of the adjoint differential ...

Abstract: In this article, we discuss a special class of time-optimal control problems for dynamic systems, where the final state of a system lies on a hyper-surface. In time domain, this endpoint constraint may be given by a scalar ...