This book highlights new developments in the wide and growing field of partial differential equations (PDE)-constrained optimization. Optimization problems where the dynamics evolve according to a system of PDEs arise in science, engineering, and economic applications and they can take the form of inverse problems, optimal control problems or optimal design problems. This book covers new theoretical, computational as well as implementation aspects for PDE-constrained optimization problems under uncertainty, in shape optimization, and in feedback control, and it illustrates the new developments on representative problems from a variety of applications.

Le but de ce livre est de presenter les developpements recents du controle geometrique oriente vers la commande des vehicules spatiaux. Son contenu a servi de base a une serie de cours de controle et d'automatique de 3e cycle. Il s'appuie sur des projets de recherche avec l'ESTEC et le CNES, sur le controle d'attitude d'un satellite, le probleme de transfert orbital en temps minimal, et le probleme de rentree atmospherique d'une navette spatiale.