ICLOCS2

This problem was originally presented by [1], with the challenge of being a singular control problem. This example is available via the link on the right.

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The original presentation of the problem will lead to singular control. However, upon noticing that the dynamic equation

is essentially to impose a rate constraint on the velocity state (x_dot). We can reformulate the problem with x_dot now an input variable with input rate constraint [-1,1], aiming to allivate the influence of singular control.

Using the Hermite-Simpson discretization scheme of ICLOCS2, the following state and input trajectories are obtained using an uniform mesh with 99 intervals, with direct collocation method and IPOPT (NLP convergence tol set to 1e-09). No influence of singular arc can be observed.