• 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