Control applications of nonlinear convex programming

Control Applications of Nonlinear Convex Programming

Since 1984 there has been a concentrated e ort to develop e cient interior-point methods for linear programming (LP). In the last few years researchers have begun to appreciate a very important property of these interior-point methods (beyond their e ciency for LP): they extend gracefully to nonlinear convex optimization problems. New interior-point algorithms for problem classes such as semide...

Real-Time Sequential Convex Programming for Optimal Control Applications

This paper proposes real-time sequential convex programming (RTSCP), a method for solving a sequence of nonlinear optimization problems depending on an online parameter. We provide a contraction estimate for the proposed method and, as a byproduct, a new proof of the local convergence of sequential convex programming. The approach is illustrated by an example where RTSCP is applied to nonlinear...

Generalized Convex Disjunctive Programming: Nonlinear Convex Hull Relaxation

A numerical approach for optimal control model of the convex semi-infinite programming

In this paper, convex semi-infinite programming is converted to an optimal control model of neural networks and the optimal control model is solved by iterative dynamic programming method. In final, numerical examples are provided for illustration of the purposed method.

Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming Applications

In this contribution we apply different approaches to solve four rather different MINLP problems: special extensions to time-indexed formulations of production planning problems, a production planning problem in BASF’s petrochemical division, a site analysis of one of BASF’s bigger sites, and a process design problem. The first problem is related to a useful nonlinear extension of production pl...