Background
Athans, Michael was born on May 3, 1937 in Drama, Greece. Came to the United States, 1954. Son of Ioannis M. and Chrissi (Konstantino) Athanasiadis.
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Geared toward advanced undergraduate and graduate engineering students, this text introduces the theory and applications of optimal control. It serves as a bridge to the technical literature, enabling students to evaluate the implications of theoretical control work, and to judge the merits of papers on the subject. Rather than presenting an exhaustive treatise, Optimal Control offers a detailed introduction that fosters careful thinking and disciplined intuition. It develops the basic mathematical background, with a coherent formulation of the control problem and discussions of the necessary conditions for optimality based on the maximum principle of Pontryagin. In-depth examinations cover applications of the theory to minimum time, minimum fuel, and to quadratic criteria problems. The structure, properties, and engineering realizations of several optimal feedback control systems also receive attention. Special features include numerous specific problems, carried through to engineering realization in block diagram form. The text treats almost all current examples of control problems that permit analytic solutions, and its unified approach makes frequent use of geometric ideas to encourage students' intuition.
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consultant Electrical engineering educator
Athans, Michael was born on May 3, 1937 in Drama, Greece. Came to the United States, 1954. Son of Ioannis M. and Chrissi (Konstantino) Athanasiadis.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University California, Berkeley, 1958. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University California, Berkeley, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), National Technology University Athens, Greece, 1996. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Crete (Greece) Polytechnic, 1996.
Staff member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, 1961-1964; professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1964. Chairman Alphatech Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts, since 1977.
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Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior, Heriot-Watt University Bode Lecturer prize 1993), American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.