Finite Elements with Switch Detection for Direct Optimal Control of Nonsmooth Systems with Set-Valued Step Functions

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Publication date: 31 March 2023

Abstract: This paper extends the Finite Elements with Switch Detection (FESD) method [Nurkanovi'c et al., 2022] to optimal control problems with nonsmooth systems involving set-valued step functions. Logical relations and common nonsmooth functions within a dynamical system can be expressed using linear and nonlinear expressions of the components of the step function. A prominent subclass of these systems are Filippov systems. The set-valued step function can be expressed by the solution map of a linear program, and using its KKT conditions allows one to transform the initial system into an equivalent dynamic complementarity system (DCS). Standard Runge-Kutta (RK) methods applied to DCS have only first-order accuracy. The FESD discretization makes the step sizes degrees of freedom and adds further constraints that ensure exact switch detection to recover the high-accuracy properties that RK methods have for smooth ODEs. All methods and examples in this paper are implemented in the open-source software package NOSNOC.

Has companion code repository: https://github.com/nurkanovic/nosnoc

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