A Study of Multiple Dynamic Programming

Multiple dynamic programming에 관한 연구

  • Published : 1972.01.01

Abstract

Dynamic Programming is regarded as a very powerful tool for solving nonlinear optimization problem subject to a number of constraints of state and control variables, but has definite disadvantages that it requires much more computing time and consumes much more memory spaces than other technigues. In order to eliminate the above-mentioned demerits, this paper suggests a news technique called Multiple Dynamic Programming. The underlying principles are based on the concept of multiple passes that, instead of forming fin lattices in time-state plane as adopted in the conventional Dynamic Programming, the Multiple Dynamic Programming constitutes, at the first pass, coarse lattices in the feasible domain of time-state plane and determines the optimal state trajectory by the usual method of Dynamic Programming, and at the second pass again constitutes finer lattices in the narrower domain surrounded by both the upperand lower edges next to the lattice edges through which the first pass optimal trajectory passes and determines the more accurate optimal trajectory of state, and then at the third pass repeats the same processes, and so on. The suggested technique insures remarkable curtailment in amounts of computer memory spaces and conputing time, and its applicability has been demonstrated by a case study on the hydro-thermal power coordination in Korean power system.

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