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ESAIM: COCV
Volume 22, Number 2, April-June 2016
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Page(s) | 581 - 609 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2015017 | |
Published online | 06 April 2016 |
A convex analysis approach to optimal controls with switching structure for partial differential equations
1
Faculty of Mathematics, University Duisburg-Essen,
45117
Essen,
Germany
christian.clason@uni-due.de
2
Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, North
Carolina, USA
kito@math.ncsu.edu
3
Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing,
Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 36, 8010
Graz,
Austria
karl.kunisch@uni-graz.at
Received:
18
August
2014
Revised:
16
March
2015
Optimal control problems involving hybrid binary-continuous control costs are challenging due to their lack of convexity and weak lower semicontinuity. Replacing such costs with their convex relaxation leads to a primal-dual optimality system that allows an explicit pointwise characterization and whose Moreau–Yosida regularization is amenable to a semismooth Newton method in function space. This approach is especially suited for computing switching controls for partial differential equations. In this case, the optimality gap between the original functional and its relaxation can be estimated and shown to be zero for controls with switching structure. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 49J20 / 49K52 / 49K20
Key words: Optimal control / switching control / partial differential equations / nonsmooth optimization / convexification / semi-smooth Newton method
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