Optimal motion control for a system of two bodies on a straight line

Abstract

The optimal control problem for motions of a system of two rigid bodies on an inclined straight line in a plane that are periodic in velocity is solved. The external body (frame) moves on a plane under the action of a force from the inner body in the course of its motions relative to the frame under dry friction between the frame and plane. The acceleration of the inner body relative to the outer one is the control whose absolute value is bounded. An optimal control that maximizes the average velocity of the system motion for a given period is found. It is shown that optimal relative acceleration of the inner body has three intervals of constancy on this period, and the outer body is in the state of rest on a part of the period (in the case of horizontal straight line, it is in a state of rest on half a period), and during the rest of the period, it moves in the desired direction and never performs a reversion. It is established that, for the found control law and under an additional constraint on the amplitude of oscillations of the inner body, it is possible to make the motion velocity of the system arbitrarily large under arbitrarily large accelerations of the inner body and an under arbitrarily large frequency of its oscillations simultaneously.