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- From: adams@bellini.berkeley.edu (Adam L. Schwartz)
- Subject: Re: Nonlinear optimal control program available ?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:21:51 GMT
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- In article <1h08q1INNl15@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> saleh@ece.orst.edu (Hassan Saleh) writes:
- >
- > Is there any public domain program available for the solution
- > of nonlinear optimal control problems ? I tried using colnew
- > to solve the resulting two-point boundary value problems but
- > I always get "singular elimination matrix" some where.
- >
- > H. I. SALEH
-
- I'm working on a nonlinear optimal control package now, but it will be
- some time before I'm finished. If you want to solve your problem by
- solving the BVP which arises out of the Euler-Lagrange equations, you
- must make sure that the sum of the Jacobian matrices of the initial
- and final conditions for the BVP is non-singular. If it isn't, you
- must use a smooth, time-dependent (non-singular, for all time of interest)
- state-transformation which results in the sum of the Jacobians being
- non-singular. This is usually not hard to do.
-
- However, even if you accomplish this, if you don't have a good initial guess
- for the initial conditions (and for most BVP software, a good initial guess
- for the state and adjoint trajectories), the software will not be able to
- find a solution.
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