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ECE Ph.D. Qualifying Exam: Automatic Control (AC)- Question 3, August 2011


 $ \color{blue}\text{1. } \left( \text{20 pts} \right) \text{ Consider the optimization problem, } $

               $ \text{maximize} -x_{1}^{2}+x_{1}-x_{2}-x_{1}x_{2} $

               $ \text{subject to } x_{1}\geq0, x_{2}\geq0 $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{i} \right) \text{ Characterize feasible directions at the point } x^{*}=\left[ \begin{array}{c} \frac{1}{2} \\ 0 \end{array} \right] $


$ \color{blue}\text{Solution 1:} $

$ \text{We need to find a direction }d\text{, such that } \exists\alpha_{0}>0, $ ...



$ \color{blue}\text{Solution 2:} $

$ d\in\Re_{2}, d\neq0 \text{ is a feasible direction at } x^{*} \text{, if } \exists \alpha_{0} \text{ that } \left[ \begin{array}{c} \frac{1}{2} \\ 0 \end{array} \right] + \alpha\left[ \begin{array}{c} d_{1} \\ d_{2} \end{array} \right] \in\Omega \text{ for all } 0\leq\alpha\leq\alpha_{0} $ 

$ \because \begin{Bmatrix}x\in\Omega: x_{1}\geq0, x_{2}\geq0\end{Bmatrix} $


$ \therefore d= \left[ \begin{array}{c} d_{1} \\ d_{2} \end{array} \right], d_{1}\in\Re^{2}, d_{2}\neq0 $

$ \color{blue}\left( \text{ii} \right) \text{Write down the second-order necessary condition for } x^{*} \text{. Does the point } x^{*} \text{ satisfy this condition?} $

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