Integrated User Environment for the Numerical Solution of Optimal Control Problems

The paper starts explaining the motivation for realizing a new user environment for numerical solution of optimal control problems. After specification of the problem class addressed, the traditional process of solving these problems is shortly described. A modification of this process is derived, where the documentation of the optimization problem is used as an entry point. The modules of the integrated user environment and their tasks are denoted. An essential part of the user environment is the automatic transformation from documentation in LATEX to FORTRAN subroutines. An overview of the underlying concept is given and some results on the efficiency are provided. The appendix shows an example for application of the transparent programming concept.