Co-design of a Continuously Variable Transmission using Sequential Quadratic Programming-based Control Optimization

摘要

For systems with nonlinear dynamics, Dynamic Programming for control is commonly considered in the framework of integrated plant and control system design. Despite its popularity, this control strategy can run into some computational issues as the performance is dependent on the state and input discretization. In this paper, we propose a Sequential Quadratic Programming-based control optimization strategy for integrated system design, where both the plant and control are optimized for the case study of a continuously variable transmission. The proposed plant and control design problem will be solved using a nested strategy.