Optimal control of a nonconvex perturbed sweeping process
Abstract
The paper concerns optimal control of discontinuous differential inclusions of the normal cone type governed by a generalized version of the Moreau sweeping process with control functions acting in both nonconvex moving sets and additive perturbations. This is a new class of optimal control problems in comparison with previously considered counterparts where the controlled sweeping sets are described by convex polyhedra. Besides a theoretical interest, a major motivation for our study of such challenging optimal control problems with intrinsic state constraints comes from the application to the crowd motion model in a practically adequate planar setting with nonconvex but prox-regular sweeping sets. Based on a constructive discrete approximation approach and advanced tools of first-order and second-order variational analysis and generalized differentiation, we establish the strong convergence of discrete optimal solutions and derive a complete set of necessary optimality conditions for discrete-time and continuous-time sweeping control systems that are expressed entirely via the problem data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.02267,
title = {Optimal control of a nonconvex perturbed sweeping process},
author = {Tan H. Cao and B. S. Mordukhovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02267},
year = {2017}
}
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37 pages, 2 figures