An Exact Penalty Function Method for Continuous Inequality Constrained Optimal Control Problem

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 260-291

  Li, Bin ^a,b   Yu, Chang Jun ^b,c   Teo, Kok Lay ^b   Duan, Guang Ren ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous state and control inequality constraints; Control parametrization; Exact penalty function; Numerical method; Optimal control; Terminal state equality constraints; Time scaling transform

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTINUOUS CONTROL; CONTINUOUS STATE; CONTINUOUS STATE AND CONTROL INEQUALITY CONSTRAINT; CONTROL PARAMETRIZATION; EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; EXACT PENALTY FUNCTIONS; INEQUALITY CONSTRAINT; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; TERMINAL STATE; TERMINAL STATE EQUALITY CONSTRAINT; TIME SCALING TRANSFORMS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 80255137182     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: 15732878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10957-011-9904-5     Document Type: Article

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