Abstract: Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is an efficient tool for non-linear optimal problems. And DDP shows a characteristic of fast convergence. However, the traditional DDP cannot solve the ...

The Milwaukee Brewers are going to be without the services of slugger Christian Yelich on Thursday as he deals with some back pain. Yelich was scratched from the Brewers' clash with the Philadelphia ...

Abstract: Nonlinear optimal control problems for trajectory planning with obstacle avoidance present several challenges. While general-purpose optimizers and dynamic programming methods struggle when ...