DocumentCode
1441372
Title
Optimal control of global entropy for environmental systems
Author
Saridis, George N.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Comput. & Syst. Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Volume
5
Issue
3
fYear
1998
fDate
9/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
45
Lastpage
51
Abstract
It has been accepted worldwide that environmental decay, like pollution, the greenhouse effect, or even traffic congestion, has been a result of the work produced to improve the quality of life, thus producing waste measured by entropy in the thermodynamic sense. The author proposes the use of optimal control theory to optimize the effects of human intervention in societal, ecological, economic, environmental and other current problems of our modern society by minimizing the maximum global entropy that represents their decay. An analytic method is presented to demonstrate the reduction of the human participation
Keywords
ecology; economics; maximum entropy methods; optimal control; pollution; Hamilton Jacobi equation; Janes principle; biochemical systems; ecology; economics; ecosystems; environmental systems; global maximum entropy; human intervention; modern society; optimal control theory; pollution; thermodynamics; waste; Ecosystems; Entropy; Environmental economics; Equations; Extraterrestrial measurements; Humans; Optimal control; Pollution measurement; Power generation economics; Production; Thermodynamics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1070-9932
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/100.728223
Filename
728223
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