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01.03.2010

The TC 2.4 Members section of the website is updated.
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23.09.2009

The he 8th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems NOLCOS 2010, to be held at the University of Bologna, Italy, on the 1st-3rd of September, 2010.

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14.11.2008

New version of the website of Technical Commitee 2.4 on Optimal Control is launched.

Welcome

You are welcome to the website of the Technical Committee 2.4 on Optimal Control of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The optimal control theory is one of the most important parts of the automatic control theory. Many outstanding results in optimal control had been obtained in the last century. One can mention names of L.S.Pontryagin, the author of the Maximum Principle, and R.Bellman, the author of the Dynamic Programming Method.

Optimal control theory, a modern extension of calculus of variations, is a mathematical optimization method for deriving control policies. It is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics, that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems.

Chair of TC 2.4

Dr. Tarasyev has graduated in 1981 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Russia. He defended his PhD thesis “Analysis and Construction of the Optimal Guaranteed Result in Differential Games” in 1984 at the Ural State University and then defended his doctoral dissertation “Constructions and Methods of Nonsmooth Analysis in Problems of Guaranteed Control” in 1996 at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg. From 1984 to 1996 he was a Research Scholar at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics. In 1996-2000 he was working as a Research Scholar in the Dynamic Systems Project of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. At the present time, he is the Head of the Sector of Dynamic Optimization at the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, a Professor at the Ural State Technical University and the Head of the Chair of Mathematics at the Liberal Arts University, Ekaterinburg.
Dr. Tarasyev's research interests are in the optimal control theory, differential games, theory of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, mathematical economics, evolutionary games, nonsmooth and convex analysis. His research deals with development of methods for numerical construction of optimal control synthesis, generalized solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations and attainability domains in problems of guaranteed control and differential games. He is working on applications of methods of the theory of optimal control to models of mathematical economics including the theory of economic growth, problems of investment optimization, dynamic macroeconomic equilibrium, and evolutionary games.