An Efficient Method for Multiobjective Optimal Control and Optimal Control Subject to Integral Constraints

An Efficient Method for Multiobjective Optimal Control and Optimal Control Subject to Integral Constraints

Year:    2010

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 28 (2010), Iss. 4 : pp. 517–551

Abstract

We introduce a new and efficient numerical method for multicriterion optimal control and single criterion optimal control under integral constraints. The approach is based on extending the state space to include information on a "budget" remaining to satisfy each constraint; the augmented Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE is then solved numerically. The efficiency of our approach hinges on the causality in that PDE, i.e., the monotonicity of characteristic curves in one of the newly added dimensions. A semi-Lagrangian "marching" method is used to approximate the discontinuous viscosity solution efficiently. We compare this to a recently introduced "weighted sum" based algorithm for the same problem [25]. We illustrate our method using examples from flight path planning and robotic navigation in the presence of friendly and adversarial observers.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1003-m0015

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 28 (2010), Iss. 4 : pp. 517–551

Published online:    2010-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    35

Keywords:    Optimal control Multiobjective optimization Pareto front Vector dynamic programming Hamilton-Jacobi equation Discontinuous viscosity solution Semi-Lagrangian discretization.