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Hauptverfasser: Ma, Yingjie, Gao, Xi, Liu, Chao, Li, Jie
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Ma, Yingjie
Gao, Xi
Liu, Chao
Li, Jie
author_facet Ma, Yingjie
Gao, Xi
Liu, Chao
Li, Jie
contents Feasible path algorithms have been widely used for process optimisation due to its good convergence. The sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm is usually used to drive the feasible path algorithms towards optimality. However, existing SQP algorithms may suffer from inconsistent quadratic programming (QP) subproblems and numerical noise, especially for ill-conditioned process optimisation problems, leading to a suboptimal or infeasible solution. In this work, we propose an improved SQP algorithm (I-SQP) and an improved sequential least squares programming algorithm (I-SLSQP) that solves a least squares (LSQ) subproblem at each major iteration. A hybrid method through the combination of two existing relaxations is proposed to solve the inconsistent subproblems for better convergence and higher efficiency. We find that a certain part of the dual LSQ algorithm suffers from serious cancellation errors, resulting in an inaccurate search direction or no viable search direction generated. Therefore, the QP solver is used to solve LSQ subproblems in such a situation. The computational results indicates that I-SLSQP is more robust than fmincon in MATLAB, IPOPT, Py-SLSQP and I-SQP. It is also shown that I-SLSQP and Py-SLSQP is superior to I-SQP for ill-conditioned process optimisation problems, whilst I-SQP is more computationally efficient than I-SLSQP and Py-SLSQP for well-conditioned problems.
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spellingShingle Improved SQP and SLSQP Algorithms for Feasible Path-based Process Optimisation
Ma, Yingjie
Gao, Xi
Liu, Chao
Li, Jie
Optimization and Control
Feasible path algorithms have been widely used for process optimisation due to its good convergence. The sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm is usually used to drive the feasible path algorithms towards optimality. However, existing SQP algorithms may suffer from inconsistent quadratic programming (QP) subproblems and numerical noise, especially for ill-conditioned process optimisation problems, leading to a suboptimal or infeasible solution. In this work, we propose an improved SQP algorithm (I-SQP) and an improved sequential least squares programming algorithm (I-SLSQP) that solves a least squares (LSQ) subproblem at each major iteration. A hybrid method through the combination of two existing relaxations is proposed to solve the inconsistent subproblems for better convergence and higher efficiency. We find that a certain part of the dual LSQ algorithm suffers from serious cancellation errors, resulting in an inaccurate search direction or no viable search direction generated. Therefore, the QP solver is used to solve LSQ subproblems in such a situation. The computational results indicates that I-SLSQP is more robust than fmincon in MATLAB, IPOPT, Py-SLSQP and I-SQP. It is also shown that I-SLSQP and Py-SLSQP is superior to I-SQP for ill-conditioned process optimisation problems, whilst I-SQP is more computationally efficient than I-SLSQP and Py-SLSQP for well-conditioned problems.
title Improved SQP and SLSQP Algorithms for Feasible Path-based Process Optimisation
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10396