Optimal control of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems with minimal energy supply

Abstract

We consider the singular optimal control problem of minimizing the energy supply of linear dissipative port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems subject to control and terminal state constraints. To this end, after reducing the problem to an ODE with feed-through term, we derive an input-state turnpike towards a subspace for optimal control of generalized port-Hamiltonian ordinary differential equations. We study the reachability properties of the system and prove that optimal states exhibit a turnpike behavior with respect to the conservative subspace. By means of the port-Hamiltonian structure, we show that, despite control constraints, this turnpike property is global in the initial state. Further, we characterize the class of dissipative Hamiltonian matrices and pencils.