WIAS Preprint No. 1619, (2011)

Optimal control of the sweeping process


Authors

  • Colombo, Giovanni
  • Henrion, René
    ORCID: 0000-0001-5572-7213
  • Hoang, Nguyen D.
  • Mordukhovich, Boris S.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 49J52 49J53 45K24 45M25 90C30

Keywords

  • Sweeping process, optimal control, dissipative differential inclusions, variational analysis, generalized differentiation

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1619

Abstract

We formulate and study an optimal control problem for the sweeping (Moreau) process, where control functions enter the moving sweeping set. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study in the literature devoted to optimal control of the sweeping process. We first establish an existence theorem of optimal solutions and then derive necessary optimality conditions for this optimal control problem of a new type, where the dynamics is governed by discontinuous differential inclusions with variable right-hand sides. Our approach to necessary optimality conditions is based on the method of discrete approximations and advanced tools of variational analysis and generalized differentiation. The final results obtained are given in terms of the initial data of the controlled sweeping process and are illustrated by nontrivial examples.

Appeared in

  • Dyn. Contin. Discrete Impuls. Syst. Ser. B Appl. Algorithms, 19 (2012) pp. 117--159.

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