Sensitivity of Optimal Control Solutions and Quantities of Interest with Respect to Component Functions

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Main Authors: Cangelosi, Jonathan R., Heinkenschloss, Matthias
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Published: 2025
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author Cangelosi, Jonathan R.
Heinkenschloss, Matthias
author_facet Cangelosi, Jonathan R.
Heinkenschloss, Matthias
contents This work establishes sensitivities of the solution of an optimal control problem (OCP) and a corresponding quantity of interest (QoI) to perturbations in a state/control-dependent component function that appears in the governing ODEs and the objective function. This extends existing OCP sensitivity results, which consider the sensitivity of the OCP solution with respect to state/control-independent parameters. It is shown that with Carathéodory-type assumptions, the Implicit Function Theorem can be applied to establish continuous Fréchet differentiability of the OCP solution with respect to the component function. These sensitivities are used to develop new estimates for the change in the QoI when the component function is perturbed. Applicability of the theoretical results is demonstrated on a trajectory optimization problem for a hypersonic vehicle.
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spellingShingle Sensitivity of Optimal Control Solutions and Quantities of Interest with Respect to Component Functions
Cangelosi, Jonathan R.
Heinkenschloss, Matthias
Optimization and Control
Dynamical Systems
49K40, 49J50, 93C73
This work establishes sensitivities of the solution of an optimal control problem (OCP) and a corresponding quantity of interest (QoI) to perturbations in a state/control-dependent component function that appears in the governing ODEs and the objective function. This extends existing OCP sensitivity results, which consider the sensitivity of the OCP solution with respect to state/control-independent parameters. It is shown that with Carathéodory-type assumptions, the Implicit Function Theorem can be applied to establish continuous Fréchet differentiability of the OCP solution with respect to the component function. These sensitivities are used to develop new estimates for the change in the QoI when the component function is perturbed. Applicability of the theoretical results is demonstrated on a trajectory optimization problem for a hypersonic vehicle.
title Sensitivity of Optimal Control Solutions and Quantities of Interest with Respect to Component Functions
topic Optimization and Control
Dynamical Systems
49K40, 49J50, 93C73
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10804