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Peak Estimation of Time Delay Systems using Occupation Measures

Optimization and Control 2023-04-06 v3 Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

This work proposes a method to compute the maximum value obtained by a state function along trajectories of a Delay Differential Equation (DDE). An example of this task is finding the maximum number of infected people in an epidemic model with a nonzero incubation period. The variables of this peak estimation problem include the stopping time and the original history (restricted to a class of admissible histories). The original nonconvex DDE peak estimation problem is approximated by an infinite-dimensional Linear Program (LP) in occupation measures, inspired by existing measure-based methods in peak estimation and optimal control. This LP is approximated from above by a sequence of Semidefinite Programs (SDPs) through the moment-Sum of Squares (SOS) hierarchy. Effectiveness of this scheme in providing peak estimates for DDEs is demonstrated with provided examples

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@article{arxiv.2303.12863,
  title  = {Peak Estimation of Time Delay Systems using Occupation Measures},
  author = {Jared Miller and Milan Korda and Victor Magron and Mario Sznaier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12863},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

34 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables

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