The control-toolbox ecosystem brings together Julia packages for mathematical control and its applications.

The core package, OptimalControl.jl, provides tools to model and solve optimal control problems defined by ordinary differential equations. It supports both direct and indirect methods, and can run on CPU or GPU.

Complementing it, OptimalControlProblems.jl offers a curated collection of benchmark optimal control problems formulated with ordinary differential equations in Julia. Each problem is available both in the OptimalControl DSL and in JuMP, with discretised versions ready to be solved using the solver of your choice. This makes the package particularly useful for benchmarking and comparing different solution strategies.

To learn how to define and solve optimal control problems in Julia, please refer to the documentation of OptimalControl.jl:

The documentation includes:

• step-by-step examples of optimal control problems;
• guides on problem definition, solver initialisation, solution plotting, and Hamiltonian flow;
• tutorials on combining direct and indirect methods, and on working with discretised problems;
• applications in the calculus of variations, MRI, space mechanics, and more.

For a collection of benchmark problems that you can discretise and solve with the solver of your choice, see the documentation of OptimalControlProblems.jl:

To install OptimalControl.jl please open Julia's interactive session (known as REPL) and press ] key in the REPL to use the package mode, then add the package:

julia> ]
pkg> add OptimalControl

pkg> registry st
Registry Status 
[23338594] General (https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git)

pkg> registry add General

The control-toolbox repositories include the two root packages:

• OptimalControl.jl: the main package to model and solve optimal control problems in Julia, both on CPU and GPU.
• OptimalControlProblems.jl: a collection of optimal control problems with ODE's in Julia.

It includes also more internal packages:

• CTBase.jl: fundamentals of the control-toolbox ecosystem
• CTDirect.jl: direct transcription of an optimal control problem and resolution
• CTFlows.jl: classical flow, Hamiltonian flow, flow from optimal control problem
• CTModels.jl: models of optimal control problem, solution
• CTParser.jl: parser to define an optimal control problem with an abstract syntax

The main package is organised as follows.

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Any contributions are welcomed, check out how to contribute to a Github project. If it is your first contribution, you can also check this first contribution tutorial. You can find first good issues (if any 🙂) here and the list of control-toolbox issues at the control-toolbox list of issues.

For any package, if you think you found a bug or if you have a feature request or suggestion, feel free to open an issue. Before opening a pull request, start an issue or a discussion on the topic, please. If you want to ask a question, feel free to start a discussion.

If you use the package OptimalControl.jl in your work, please cite us.

• calligraphy by Alain Hurtig
• bocop: Bocop3, a direct solver for optimal control problem developed in C++
• control-toolbox wiki