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Main Authors: von Esch, Maximilian Pierer, Völz, Andreas, Graichen, Knut
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10174
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author von Esch, Maximilian Pierer
Völz, Andreas
Graichen, Knut
author_facet von Esch, Maximilian Pierer
Völz, Andreas
Graichen, Knut
contents This paper presents a novel sensitivity-based distributed programming (SBDP) approach for non-convex, large-scale nonlinear programs (NLP). The algorithm relies on first-order sensitivities to cooperatively solve the central NLP in a distributed manner with only neighbor-to-neighbor communication and parallelizable local computations. The decoupling of the subsystems is based on primal decomposition. We derive sufficient local convergence conditions for non-convex problems. Furthermore, we consider the SBDP method in a distributed optimal control context and derive favorable convergence properties in this setting. We illustrate these theoretical findings and the performance of the proposed method with a comparison to state-of-the-art algorithms and simulations of various distributed optimization and control problems.
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spellingShingle Sensitivity-Based Distributed Programming for Non-Convex Optimization
von Esch, Maximilian Pierer
Völz, Andreas
Graichen, Knut
Optimization and Control
This paper presents a novel sensitivity-based distributed programming (SBDP) approach for non-convex, large-scale nonlinear programs (NLP). The algorithm relies on first-order sensitivities to cooperatively solve the central NLP in a distributed manner with only neighbor-to-neighbor communication and parallelizable local computations. The decoupling of the subsystems is based on primal decomposition. We derive sufficient local convergence conditions for non-convex problems. Furthermore, we consider the SBDP method in a distributed optimal control context and derive favorable convergence properties in this setting. We illustrate these theoretical findings and the performance of the proposed method with a comparison to state-of-the-art algorithms and simulations of various distributed optimization and control problems.
title Sensitivity-Based Distributed Programming for Non-Convex Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10174