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Finite Elements with Switch Detection for Direct Optimal Control of Nonsmooth Systems with Set-Valued Step Functions
Armin Nurkanović, Jonathan Frey, Anton Pozharskiy, Moritz Diehl
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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 involving step functions. 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. We use the novel FESD method for the direct transcription of optimal control problems. All methods and examples in this paper are implemented in the open-source software package NOSNOC.
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