Author:
Rodriguez-Gonzalez Pablo T.,Rico-Ramirez Vicente,Rico-Martinez Ramiro,Diwekar Urmila M.
Abstract
A conventional approach to solving stochastic optimal control problems with time-dependent uncertainties involves the use of the stochastic maximum principle (SMP) technique. For large-scale problems, however, such an algorithm frequently leads to convergence complexities when solving the two-point boundary value problem resulting from the optimality conditions. An alternative approach consists of using continuous random variables to capture uncertainty through sampling-based methods embedded within an optimization strategy for the decision variables; such a technique may also fail due to the computational intensity involved in excessive model calculations for evaluating the objective function and its derivatives for each sample. This paper presents a new approach to solving stochastic optimal control problems with time-dependent uncertainties based on BONUS (Better Optimization algorithm for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems). The BONUS has been used successfully for non-linear programming problems with static uncertainties, but we show here that its scope can be extended to the case of optimal control problems with time-dependent uncertainties. A batch reactor for biodiesel production was used as a case study to illustrate the proposed approach. Results for a maximum profit problem indicate that the optimal objective function and the optimal profiles were better than those obtained by the maximum principle.
Subject
General Mathematics,Engineering (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)
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