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Second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for optimization problems and applications to control theory
This paper deals with a class of nonlinear optimization problems in a function space, where the solution is restricted by pointwise upper and lower bounds and by finitely many equality and inequality constraints of functional type. Second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions are established, where the cone of critical directions is arbitrarily close to the form which is expected from the optimization in finite dimensional spaces. The results are applied to some optimal control problems for ordinary and partial differential equations
Optimality conditions applied to free-time multi-burn optimal orbital transfers
While the Pontryagin Maximum Principle can be used to calculate candidate
extremals for optimal orbital transfer problems, these candidates cannot be
guaranteed to be at least locally optimal unless sufficient optimality
conditions are satisfied. In this paper, through constructing a parameterized
family of extremals around a reference extremal, some second-order necessary
and sufficient conditions for the strong-local optimality of the free-time
multi-burn fuel-optimal transfer are established under certain regularity
assumptions. Moreover, the numerical procedure for computing these optimality
conditions is presented. Finally, two medium-thrust fuel-optimal trajectories
with different number of burn arcs for a typical orbital transfer problem are
computed and the local optimality of the two computed trajectories are tested
thanks to the second-order optimality conditions established in this paper
Strong Stationarity Conditions for Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems
We present necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for finite time
optimal control problems for a class of hybrid systems described by linear
complementarity models. Although these optimal control problems are difficult
in general due to the presence of complementarity constraints, we provide a set
of structural assumptions ensuring that the tangent cone of the constraints
possesses geometric regularity properties. These imply that the classical
Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions of nonlinear programming theory are both
necessary and sufficient for local optimality, which is not the case for
general mathematical programs with complementarity constraints. We also present
sufficient conditions for global optimality.
We proceed to show that the dynamics of every continuous piecewise affine
system can be written as the optimizer of a mathematical program which results
in a linear complementarity model satisfying our structural assumptions. Hence,
our stationarity results apply to a large class of hybrid systems with
piecewise affine dynamics. We present simulation results showing the
substantial benefits possible from using a nonlinear programming approach to
the optimal control problem with complementarity constraints instead of a more
traditional mixed-integer formulation.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figure
-optimality conditions for circular restricted three-body problems
In this paper, the L1-minimization for the translational motion of a
spacecraft in a circular restricted three-body problem (CRTBP) is considered.
Necessary con- ditions are derived by using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle,
revealing the existence of bang-bang and singular controls. Singular extremals
are detailed, re- calling the existence of the Fuller phenomena according to
the theories developed by Marchal in Ref. [14] and Zelikin et al. in Refs. [12,
13]. The sufficient opti- mality conditions for the L1-minimization problem
with fixed endpoints have been solved in Ref. [22]. In this paper, through
constructing a parameterised family of extremals, some second-order sufficient
conditions are established not only for the case that the final point is fixed
but also for the case that the final point lies on a smooth submanifold. In
addition, the numerical implementation for the optimality conditions is
presented. Finally, approximating the Earth-Moon-Spacecraft system as a CRTBP,
an L1-minimization trajectory for the translational motion of a spacecraft is
computed by employing a combination of a shooting method with a continuation
method of Caillau et al. in Refs. [4, 5], and the local optimality of the
computed trajectory is tested thanks to the second-order optimality conditions
established in this paper
Nonessential functionals in multiobjective optimal control problems
We address the problem of obtaining well-defined criteria for multiple criteria optimal control problems. Necessary and sufficient conditions for an objective functional to be nonessential are proved. The results provide effective tools for determining nonessential objectives in multiobjective optimal control problems
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