Structured interior point SQP methods in optimal control

authored by

M. C. Steinbach

Abstract

Trajectory optimization is an important means to improve performance in many industrial and scientific processes such as robotics or aerospace applications. A combination of SQP methods with direct collocation or multiple shooting discretizations has proven very successful for such problems. In realistic applications, however, very large QP sub-problems with thousands of constraints may arise. The paper presents an approach based on highly efficient solution of the block-sparse QP by a structured interior point method.

External Organisation(s)

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR)
Heidelberg University

Type

Article

Journal

ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Volume

76

Pages

59-62

No. of pages

4

ISSN

0044-2267

Publication date

1996

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computational Mechanics, Applied Mathematics