ECE Ph.D. Qualifying Exam in Automatic Control (AC), Question 3, August 2011
Question
Part 1. 20 pts
$ \color{blue} \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}\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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Part 5. (20 pts)
$ \color{blue} \text{ Consider the following optimization problem, } $
$ \text{optimize} \left(x_{1}-2\right)^{2}+\left(x_{2}-1\right)^{2} $
$ \text{subject to } x_{2}- x_{1}^{2}\geq0 $
$ 2-x_{1}-x_{2}\geq0 $
$ x_{1}\geq0. $
$ \color{blue} \text{The point } x^{*}=\begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 \end{bmatrix}^{T} \text{ satisfies the KKT conditions.} $
$ \color{blue}\left( \text{i} \right) \text{Does } x^{*} \text{ satisfy the FONC for minimum or maximum? Where are the KKT multipliers?} $
$ \color{blue}\left( \text{ii} \right) \text{Does } x^{*} \text{ satisfy SOSC? Carefully justify your answer.} $
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