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    École Nationale Supérieure d'Électrotechnique d'Électronique d'Informatique d'Hydraulique et des Télécommunications

Objectives

- By the end of this course, students will have learned how to formulate a constrained optimization problem with a view to solving it.

- They will be able to describe the problem in terms of an objective function under constraints and use numerical tools to solve it optimally.

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Description

- Illustration of design problems formalized as optimization problems with constraints.

- Review of unconstrained optimization: mathematical theorems and gradient algorithms, optimal step gradient, Newton and quasi-Newton.

- Optimization with constraints on variables: first simple projection algorithm.

- Mathematical formalization of optimization problems with constraints.

- Presentation of Penalty Methods

 - Definition of the Lagrange Function

- KKT Theorem (Karush-Khun-Tucker)

- Uzawa Algorithm, Active-set, SQP, Interior Point Algorithm

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