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This chapter is the overview of the book. We first briefly reivew the development of optimal control theory. Then the pseudospectral methods and the property of symplectic conservation are introduced. Finally, the motivation and the arrangement of the book are given.

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Wang, X., Liu, J., Peng, H. (2021). Overview of This Book. In: Symplectic Pseudospectral Methods for Optimal Control. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 97. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3438-6_1

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