abstract:The Gauss pseudospectral method (GPM), one of many topics named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a direct transcription method for discretizing a continuous optimal control problem into a nonlinear program (NLP). The Gauss pseudospectral method differs from several other pseudospectral methods in that the dynamics are not collocated at either endpoint of the time interval.
Threekinds oftrajectoryoptimizationmethodsincluding Indirectmethod, HybridmethodandGausspseudospectralmethod, as well as solvingthoughts were givenin this paper.