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On the discontinuity of the costates for optimal control problems with Coulomb friction

Conference ·
OSTI ID:756407

This work points out that the costates are actually discontinuous functions of time for optimal control problems with Coloumb friction. In particular these discontinuities occur at the time points where the velocity of the system changes sign. To the authors knowledge, this has not been noted before. This phenomenon is demonstrated on a minimum-time problem with Coloumb friction and the consistency of discontinuous costates and switching functions with respect to the input switches is shown.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (US); Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
756407
Report Number(s):
SAND2000-1358C
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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