Optimal and Sub-optimal Feedback Controls for Biogas Production

Antoine Haddon (), Héctor Ramírez () and Alain Rapaport ()
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Antoine Haddon: Universidad de Chile
Héctor Ramírez: Universidad de Chile
Alain Rapaport: MISTEA, Université Montpellier, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2019, vol. 183, issue 2, No 12, 642-670

Abstract: Abstract We revisit the optimal control problem of maximizing biogas production in continuous bio-processes in two directions: 1. over an infinite horizon, 2. with sub-optimal controllers independent of the time horizon. For the first point, we identify a set of optimal controls for the problems with an averaged reward and with a discounted reward when the discount factor goes to 0 and we show that the value functions of both problems are equal. For the finite horizon problem, our approach relies on a framing of the value function by considering a different reward for which the optimal solution has an explicit optimal feedback that is time-independent. In particular, we show that this technique allows us to provide explicit bounds on the sub-optimality of the proposed controllers. The various strategies are finally illustrated on Haldane and Contois growth functions.

Keywords: Optimal control; Chemostat model; Singular arc; Sub-optimality; Infinite horizon; 49K15; 49N35; 49N90; 93B52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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