Fiscal Year	2008
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Applied Mathematics
Investigator(s)	Kang, Wei
Sponsor	Naval Research Laboratory (Navy)
Summary	The objective of this research project is to explore the potential and advantage of applying the state-of-the-art in optimal control theory to the problem of data assimilation. More specifically, the research focus is on the application of Pseudospectral (PS) optimal control to the problem of data assimilation subject to nonlinear dynamics. The goal is to develop discretization methods based upon PS optimal control that uses fewer nodes than conventional approaches, which implies a relatively lower dimension in the discretized nonlinear Optimization.
Keywords	Data Assimilation Computational Optimal Control
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