Lotka Experimental Design

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Lotka Experimental Design
State dimension: 1
Differential states: 11
Discrete control functions: 2
Interior point equalities: 11


The Lotka Experimental Design problem looks for an optimal fishing strategy to be performed on a fixed time horizon to control the biomasses of both predator as prey fish as described in Lotka Volterra fishing problem. The goal here, however, is to minimize the uncertainty of a follow-up parameter estimation problem. In addition to the fishing decision the question when measurements of the two state variables are performed becomes a degree of freedom.

The mathematical equations form a small-scale ODE model. The ODE from Lotka Volterra fishing problem is extended such that it also includes state sensitivities, the Fisher information matrix entries and integrated sampling states.

The optimal integer control functions shows bang bang behavior.

Mathematical formulation

We are interested in estimating the parameters p_2 and p_4 of the Lotka-Volterra type predator-prey fish initial value problem


\begin{array}{rcl}
\dot{x_1}(t) &=& p_1 \; x_1(t) - p_2 x_1(t) x_2(t) - p_5 u(t) x_1(t), \; t \in [0,t_f], \quad x_1(0) = 0.5, \\
\dot{x_2}(t) &=& - p_3 \; x_2(t) + p_4 x_1(t) x_2(t) - p_6 u(t) x_2(t), \; t \in [0,t_f], \quad x_2(0) = 0.7,
\end{array}

where u(\cdot) is a fishing control that may or may not be fixed. The other parameters, the initial values and t_f = 12 are fixed. We are interested in how to fish and when to measure, with an upper bound M on the measuring time. We can measure the states directly, h^1(x(t)) = x_1(t) and h^2(x(t)) = x_2(t). We use two different sampling functions, w^1(\cdot) and w^2(\cdot) in the same experimental setting. This can be seen either as a two-dimensional measurement function h(x(t)), or as a special case of a multiple experiment, in which u(\cdot), x(\cdot), and G(\cdot) are identical. The experimental design problem then reads


 \begin{array}{lll}
 \displaystyle \min_{x,G,F,z^1,z^2,u,w^1,w^2} && \text{trace} \; \left( F^{-1}(t_f) \right) \\
 \text{subject to} \\
\quad \dot{x_1}(t) & = &  p_1 \; x_1(t) - p_2 x_1(t) x_2(t) - p_5 u(t) x_1(t),\\
\quad \dot{x_2}(t) & = &  - p_3 \; x_2(t) + p_4 x_1(t) x_2(t) - p_6 u(t) x_2(t),\\
\quad \dot{G_{11}}(t) & = & f_{x11}(\cdot) \; G_{11}(t) + f_{x12}(\cdot) \; G_{21}(t) + f_{p12}(\cdot), \\
\quad \dot{G_{12}}(t) & = & f_{x11}(\cdot) \; G_{12}(t) + f_{x12}(\cdot) \; G_{22}(t), \\
\quad \dot{G_{21}}(t) & = & f_{x21}(\cdot) \; G_{11}(t) + f_{x22}(\cdot) \; G_{21}(t), \\
\quad \dot{G_{22}}(t) & = & f_{x21}(\cdot) \; G_{12}(t) + f_{x22}(\cdot) \; G_{22}(t) + f_{p24}(\cdot), \\
\quad \dot{F_{11}}(t) & = & w^1(t) G_{11}(t)^2 + w^2(t) G_{21}(t)^2, \\
\quad \dot{F_{12}}(t) & = & w^1(t) G_{11}(t) G_{12}(t) + w^2(t) G_{21}(t) G_{22}(t), \\
\quad \dot{F_{22}}(t) & = & w^1(t) G_{12}(t)^2 + w^2(t) G_{22}(t)^2, \\
\quad \dot{z^1}(t) & = & w^1(t), \\
\quad \dot{z^2}(t) & = & w^2(t), \\[1.5ex]
\quad x(0) &=& (0.5, 0.7), \\
\quad G(0) &=& F(0) = 0, \\
\quad z^1(0) &=& z^2(0) = 0, \\ [1.5ex]
\quad u(t) & \in & \mathcal{U}, \; w^1(t) \in \mathcal{W}, \; w^2(t) \in \mathcal{W}, \\
\quad 0    & \le & M - z(t_f)
  \end{array}

with f_{x11}(\cdot) = \partial f_1(\cdot) / \partial x_1 = p_1 - p_2 x_2(t) - p_5 u(t), f_{x12}(\cdot) = - p_2 x_1(t), f_{x21}(\cdot) = p_4 x_2(t), f_{x22}(\cdot) = -p_3 + p_4 x_1(t) - p_6 u(t), and f_{p12}(\cdot) = \partial f_1(\cdot) / \partial p_2 = -x_1(t) x_2(t), f_{p24}(\cdot) = \partial f_2(\cdot) / \partial p_4 = x_1(t) x_2(t).

Note that the state F_{21}(\cdot) = F_{12}(\cdot) has been left out for reasons of symmetry.

Parameters

We use t_f=12, p_1 = p_2 = p_3 = p_4 = 1, and p_5 = 0.4, p_6 = 0.2. The upper bound on the measurement time intervals is chosen as M=4.

Reference Solutions

Here is one local solution to the above control problem.

Source Code

Model descriptions are available in

Variants

There are several alternative formulations and variants of the above problem, in particular

  • a prescribed time grid for the control function [Sager2006]Address: Heidelberg
    Author: S. Sager; H.G. Bock; M. Diehl; G. Reinelt; J.P. Schl\"oder
    Booktitle: Recent Advances in Optimization
    Editor: A. Seeger
    Note: ISBN 978-3-5402-8257-0
    Pages: 269--289
    Publisher: Springer
    Series: Lectures Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
    Title: Numerical methods for optimal control with binary control functions applied to a Lotka-Volterra type fishing problem
    Volume: 563
    Year: 2009
    Link to Google Scholar
    , see also Lotka Experimental Design (AMPL),
  • no fishing, i.e., u \equiv 0,
  • different fishing control functions for the two species,
  • different parameters and start values.

Miscellaneous and Further Reading

The Lotka Volterra fishing problem was introduced by Sebastian Sager in a proceedings paper [Sager2006]Address: Heidelberg
Author: S. Sager; H.G. Bock; M. Diehl; G. Reinelt; J.P. Schl\"oder
Booktitle: Recent Advances in Optimization
Editor: A. Seeger
Note: ISBN 978-3-5402-8257-0
Pages: 269--289
Publisher: Springer
Series: Lectures Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
Title: Numerical methods for optimal control with binary control functions applied to a Lotka-Volterra type fishing problem
Volume: 563
Year: 2009
Link to Google Scholar
and revisited in his PhD thesis [Sager2005]Address: Tönning, Lübeck, Marburg
Author: S. Sager
Editor: ISBN 3-89959-416-9
Publisher: Der andere Verlag
Title: Numerical methods for mixed--integer optimal control problems
Url: http://mathopt.de/PUBLICATIONS/Sager2005.pdf
Year: 2005
Link to Google Scholar
. These are also the references to look for more details. The experimental design problem has been described in the habilitation thesis of Sager, [Sager2011d]Author: S. Sager
How published: University of Heidelberg
Month: August
Note: Habilitation
Title: On the Integration of Optimization Approaches for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimal Control
Url: http://mathopt.de/PUBLICATIONS/Sager2011d.pdf
Year: 2011
Link to Google Scholar
.

References

[Sager2005]S. Sager (2005): Numerical methods for mixed--integer optimal control problems. (%edition%). Der andere Verlag, Tönning, Lübeck, Marburg, %pages%Link to Google Scholar
[Sager2006]S. Sager; H.G. Bock; M. Diehl; G. Reinelt; J.P. Schl\"oder (2009): Numerical methods for optimal control with binary control functions applied to a Lotka-Volterra type fishing problem. Springer, Recent Advances in OptimizationLink to Google Scholar
[Sager2011d]S. Sager: On the Integration of Optimization Approaches for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimal Control, 2011Link to Google Scholar