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Computational Optimal Control of the Saint-Venant PDE Model Using the Time-scaling Technique

Systems and Control 2015-11-02 v1

Abstract

This paper proposes a new time-scaling approach for computational optimal control of a distributed parameter system governed by the Saint-Venant PDEs. We propose the time-scaling approach, which can change a uniform time partition to a nonuniform one. We also derive the gradient formulas by using the variational method. Then the method of lines (MOL) is applied to compute the Saint-Venant PDEs after implementing the time-scaling transformation and the associate costate PDEs. Finally, we compare the optimization results using the proposed time-scaling approach with the one not using it. The simulation result demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed time-scaling method.

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@article{arxiv.1510.09021,
  title  = {Computational Optimal Control of the Saint-Venant PDE Model Using the Time-scaling Technique},
  author = {Tehuan Chen and Chao Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.09021},
  year   = {2015}
}