Conference article

Building and Solving Nonlinear Optimal Control and Estimation Problems

Jan Poland
ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

Alf J. Isaksson
ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

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Published in: Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference; Como; Italy; 20-22 September 2009

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 43:5, p. 39-46

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Published: 2009-12-29

ISBN: 978-91-7393-513-5

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

We introduce a tool for obtaining optimal control and estimation problems from graphical models. Graphical models are constructed by combining blocks that can be implemented in Modelica or taken from a palette. The models can be used for predictive control; moving horizon estimation; and/or parameter estimation. We show that the solution time and robustness of the resulting nonlinear program strongly depends on the way the model was built and translated. These observations yield modeling guidelines for increasing robustness and efficiency of the optimization. In particular; we find out that eliminating as many variables as possible from the optimization problem may help a lot.

Keywords

Modelica; Optimization; Optimal Control; State Estimation; Receding Horizon; MPC; MHE

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