Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle for a Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equation

In this paper we investigate optimal control problems governed by a advection-diffusion-reaction equation. We present a method for deriving conditions in the form of Pontryagin’s principle. The main tools used are the Ekeland’s variational principle combined with penalization and spike variation techniques.

ANNOUNCEMENT ON“MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE FOR NON-UNIFORMLY PARABOLIC EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS”

In this note we announce the global boundedness for the solutions to a class of possibly degenerate parabolic equations by De-Giorgi’s iteration.In particular,the existence of weak solutions for possibly degenerate stochastic differential equations with singular diffusion coefficients is obtained.

Real-Time Co-optimization of Gear Shifting and Engine Torque for Predictive Cruise Control of Heavy-Duty Trucks

Fuel consumption is one of the main concerns for heavy-duty trucks.Predictive cruise control(PCC)provides an intriguing opportunity to reduce fuel consumption by using the upcoming road information.In this study,a real-time implementable PCC,which simultaneously optimizes engine torque and gear shifting,is proposed for heavy-duty trucks.To minimize fuel consumption,the problem of the PCC is formulated as a nonlinear model predictive control(MPC),in which the upcoming road elevation information is used.Finding the solution of the nonlinear MPC is time consuming;thus,a real-time implementable solver is developed based on Pontryagin’s maximum principle and indirect shooting method.Dynamic programming(DP)algorithm,as a global optimization algorithm,is used as a performance benchmark for the proposed solver.Simulation,hardware-in-the-loop and real-truck experiments are conducted to verify the performance of the proposed controller.The results demonstrate that the MPC-based solution performs nearly as well as the DP-based solution,with less than 1%deviation for testing roads.Moreover,the proposed co-optimization controller is implementable in a real-truck,and the proposed MPC-based PCC algorithm achieves a fuel-saving rate of 7.9%without compromising the truck’s travel time.

Truly optimal semi-active damping to control free vibration of a single degree of freedom system

This paper studies a single degree of freedom system under free vibration and controlled by a general semiactive damping.A general integral of squared error is considered as the performance index.A one-time switching damping controller is proposed and optimized.The pontryagin maximum principle is used to prove that no other form of semi-active damping can provide the better performance than the proposed one-time switching damping.

Flexible predictive power-split control for battery-supercapacitor systems of electric vehicles using IVHS

The utilization of traffic information received from intelligent vehicle highway systems(IVHS) to plan velocity and split output power for multi-source vehicles is currently a research hotspot. However, it is an open issue to plan vehicle velocity and distribute output power between different supply units simultaneously due to the strongly coupling characteristic of the velocity planning and the power distribution. To address this issue, a flexible predictive power-split control strategy based on IVHS is proposed for electric vehicles(EVs) equipped with battery-supercapacitor system(BSS). Unlike hierarchical strategies to plan vehicle velocity and distribute output power separately, a monolayer model predictive control(MPC) method is employed to optimize them online at the same time. Firstly, a flexible velocity planning strategy is designed based on the signal phase and time(SPAT) information received from IVHS and then the Pontryagin’s minimum principle(PMP) is adopted to formulate the optimal control problem of the BSS. Then, the flexible velocity planning strategy and the optimal control problem of BSS are embedded into an MPC framework, which is online solved using the shooting method in a fashion of receding horizon. Simulation results verify that the proposed strategy achieves a superior performance compared with the hierarchical strategy in terms of transportation efficiency, battery capacity loss, energy consumption and computation time.

共生种群的有限时间稳定性分析及最优捕获算法

针对共生种群在有限时间内的最优捕获问题,通过讨论共生种群的有限时间稳定性,并利用Pontryagin极大值原理及Hamilton函数方法,给出共生种群的最优捕获策略.首先,基于养殖过程的数据信息对共生生物生长过程建立非线性模型,并在保证生态环境平衡的条件下,深入分析共生生长过程和共生系统的有限时间稳定性,给出了严格的证明过程;其次,应用基于Lyapunov方法的Pontryagin极大值原理推导出一种最优采收方法,并得到了最优采收解的一般算法;最后,用仿真对比实验结果证明该算法的有效性.

基于庞特里亚金极小值原理的柴电混合动力船舶能量管理策略

提升混合动力船舶的能源利用率,制定合适的能量管理策略以实现功率合理分配、减小船舶燃油消耗、节约成本,是混合动力船舶的亟需解决的关键技术问题。本文基于Matlab/Simulink仿真建模软件,建立对象船舶的动力系统仿真模型,研究不同功率需求下对柴油发电机和超级电容的控制要求。考虑动力源特性和船舶功率需求,本文提出了一种基于庞特里亚金极小值的能量管理策略对目标船舶进行合理的功率分配。仿真结果表明:基于庞特里亚金极小值原理的能量管理策略能够优化船舶柴油机组原动机的工作状态,使其在比油耗较低的点工作。在该策略的控制下,航行工况内的柴油发电机组原动机平均比油耗为207.2 g/(kW·h),总燃油消耗量为204.1 kg。本文方法不仅对船舶减小燃油消耗具有积极的作用,同时对提高船舶运行经济性具有重要意义。

一类具有Beddington-DeAngelis功能反应捕食系统收获模型的稳定性

研究一类具有双线性密度制约及Beddington-DeAngelis功能反应的捕食系统收获模型.运用微分方程定性稳定性理论讨论系统正平衡点的性态,得到其局部渐近稳定及全局渐近稳定的充分条件,利用Pontryagin最大值原理得到系统的最优收获策略.

动态最优税率设计问题:一个Stackelberg微分对策模型

利用微分对策理论,定量地探讨动态最优税率的设计问题.首先在一定的假设条件下建立描述动态最优税率设计的Stackelberg微分对策模型,政府在此模型中充当对策的"主者(leader)",企业充当对策的"从者(fol lower)".然后利用极大值原理及倒向微分方程,分析当政府考虑到企业潜在的理性反应时,如何制定出最优的税率,使税收在考察时期里最大化.最后给出不同均衡解的经济含义以及模型可能的扩展.

基于时间最短的SGKW共面打击轨道优化设计

天基对地打击动能武器(SGKW)用于从太空对地面高价值战略目标进行快速、准确的打击。针对最短打击时间要求,研究了SGKW共面打击轨道的优化设计方法。首先建立了SGKW的无量纲化平面运动模型,然后利用庞特里亚金极大值原理将时间最短共面打击轨道的最优控制问题转化为两点边值问题。由于约束条件中存在优化参数,一种基于"遗传算法+序列二次规划"的组合优化算法被用于求解未知参数。仿真结果验证了上述方法的有效性。

SGKW轨道在线生成技术研究

天基对地打击动能武器(SGKW)用于从太空对地面高价值战略目标进行快速、准确的打击。针对作战实时性要求,探讨了SGKW的轨道在线生成技术。首先,利用庞特里亚金极大值原理将时间最短打击轨道的最优控制问题转化为两点边值问题。由于约束条件中存在优化参数,一种基于"遗传算法+序列二次规划"的组合优化算法被用于求解伴随变量初值和再入点参数。为了提高轨道生成的速度,在大量离线优化数据的基础上建立了BP神经网络预测模型,其预测值通过序列二次规划算法稍加修正,即可满足相应任务的落点精度要求。仿真结果验证了上述方案的有效性。

Analysis of Listeriosis Transmission Dynamics with Optimal Control

Listeriosis is an illness caused by the germ Listeria monocytogenes. Generally, humans are infected with listeriosis after eating contaminated food. Listeriosis mostly affects people with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and newborns. In this paper, a model describing the dynamics of Listeriosis is developed and analysed using ordinary differential equations. The model was analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively for its local and global stability, basic reproductive number and parameter contributions to the basic reproductive number to understand the impact of each parameter on the disease spread. The Listeriosis model has been extended to include time dependent control variables such as treatment of both humans and animals, vaccination and education of humans. Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle was introduced to obtain the best optimal control strategies required for curbing Listeriosis infections. Numerical simulation was performed and the results displayed graphically and discussed. Cost effectiveness analysis was conducted using the intervention averted ratio (IAR) concepts and it was revealed that the most effective intervention strategy is the treatment of infected humans and animals.

Mathematical Analysis of Nipah Virus Infections Using Optimal Control Theory

The optimal use of intervention strategies to mitigate the spread of Nipah Virus (NiV) using optimal control technique is studied in this paper. First of all we formulate a dynamic model of NiV infections with variable size population and two control strategies where creating awareness and treatment are considered as controls. We intend to find the optimal combination of these two control strategies that will minimize the cost of the two control measures and as a result the number of infectious individuals will decrease. We establish the existence for the optimal controls and Pontryagin’s maximum principle is used to characterize the optimal controls. The numerical simulation suggests that optimal control technique is much more effective to minimize the infected individuals and the corresponding cost of the two controls. It is also monitored that in the case of high contact rate, controls have to work for longer period of time to get the desired result. Numerical simulation reveals that the spread of Nipah virus can be controlled effectively if we apply control strategy at early stage.

年龄结构流感模型综合控制策略研究

该文考虑流感的年龄异质性,结合流感传播机理建立了连续年龄结构的SIR流感模型.引入了疫苗接种和实施治疗两种控制措施,提出成本效益函数,利用庞特利亚金最大值原理及Ekland变分原理得到最优控制的存在性.通过向前和向后扫描算法进行数值模拟.比较多种控制策略,发现接种疫苗和实施治疗组合控制效果最佳;比较成本效应,发现低成本的控制效果最理想.最后综合分析得出接种疫苗成本效益最高,而同时实施接种和治疗公共卫生效率最佳.

SGKW时间最短异面打击轨道的优化方法

天基对地打击动能武器(SGKW)用于从太空对地面高价值战略目标进行快速、准确的打击。针对最短打击时间要求,研究了SGKW异面打击轨道的优化设计方法。首先建立了SGKW的无量纲化空间运动模型,然后利用庞特里亚金极大值原理将时间最短打击轨道的最优控制问题转化为两点边值问题。由于约束条件中存在优化参数,一种基于"遗传算法+序列二次规划"的组合优化算法被用于求解未知参数。最后对上述方法进行了仿真验证。

Optimal Control Analysis of Influenza Epidemic Model

The implementation of optimal control strategies involving preventive measures and antiviral treatment can significantly reduce the number of clinical cases of influenza. In this paper, a model for the transmission dynamics of influenza is formulated and two control strategies involving preventive measures (awareness campaign, washing hand, using hand sanitizer, wearing mask) and treatment are considered and used to minimize the total number of infected individuals and associated cost of using these two controls. The resulting optimality system is solved numerically. Hamiltonian is formulated to investigate the existence of the optimal control, in the optimal control model. Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle is applied to describe the control variables and the objective function is designed to reduce both the infection and the cost of interventions. From the numerical simulation, it is observed that in the case of high contact rate (β = 3), both the controls work for a longer period of time to reduce the disease burden. The optimal control analysis and numerical simulations reveal that the interventions reduce the number of exposed and infected individuals.

Motoyosi Sugita—A “Widely Unknown” Japanese Thermodynamicist Who Explored the 4th Law of Thermodynamics for Creation of the Theory of Life

The purpose of this paper is to introduce to you, the Western people, nowadays a “widely unknown” Japanese thermodynamicist by the name of Motoyosi Sugita and his study on the thermodynamics of transient phenomena and his theory of life. This is because although he was one of the top theoretical physicists in Japan before, during and after WWII and after WWII he promoted the establishment of the biophysical society of Japan as one of the founding members, he himself and his studies themselves have seemed to be totally forgotten nowadays in spite that his study was absolutely important for the study of life. Therefore, in this paper I would like to present what kind of person he was and what he studied in physics as a review on the physics work of Motoyosi Sugita for the first time. I will follow his past studies to introduce his ideas in theoretical physics as well as in biophysics as follows: He proposed the bright ideas such as the quasi-static change in the broad sense, the virtual heat, and the field of chemical potential etc. in order to establish his own theory of thermodynamics of transient phenomena, as the generalization of the Onsager-Prigogine’s theory of the irreversible processes. By the concept of the field of chemical potential that acquired the nonlinear transport, he was seemingly successful to exceed and go beyond the scope of Onsager and Prigogine. Once he established his thermodynamics, he explored the existence of the 4th law of thermodynamics for the foundation of theory of life. He applied it to broad categories of transient phenomena including life and life being such as the theory of metabolism. He regarded the 4th law of thermodynamics as the maximum principle in transient phenomena. He tried to prove it all life long. Since I have recently found that his maximum principle can be included in more general maximum principle, which was known as the Pontryagin’s maximum principle in the theory of optimal control, I would like to explain such theories produced by Motoyosi Sugita as detailed as possible. And also I have put short history of Motoyosi Sugita’s personal life in order for you to know him well. I hope that this article helps you to know this wonderful man and understand what he did in the past, which was totally forgotten in the world and even in Japan.

The Stochastic Maximum Principle for a Jump-Diffusion Mean-Field Model Involving Impulse Controls and Applications in Finance

This paper establishes a stochastic maximum principle for a stochastic control of mean-field model which is governed by a Lévy process involving continuous and impulse control.The authors also show the existence and uniqueness of the solution to a jump-diffusion mean-field stochastic differential equation involving impulse control.As for its application,a mean-variance portfolio selection problem has been solved.

Optimal control of a mobile robot on sphere

For the purpose of solving optimal control problem of a wall-crawling mobile robot working on spherical containers, we propose the Hamel's formalism for Pontryagin Maximum Principle,which gives a general framework for the optimal control of a mechanical system with velocity constraints, especially nonholonomic constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is shown by the simulations for the above problem.

具有Logistic增长的SIRS传染病模型的稳定性及最优控制分析

研究一类具有logistic增长的时滞SIRS传染病模型.证明了当基本再生数不大于1时,对于任意的时滞τ≥0,无病平衡点是全局渐近稳定的,此时疾病消亡.当基本再生数大于1时,得到了地方平衡点是全局渐近稳定的充分条件.利用控制理论,通过疫苗接种降低易感者和采取治疗措施提高感染者的恢复率来进行管理控制,利用Pontryagin最大值原理给出了最优控制策略对的表达形式.最后,通过MATLAB进行数值模拟,说明了采取最优控制对措施的有效性.