Adaptive mesh refinement method for solving optimal control problems using interpolation error analysis and improved data compression (Q2297402)

This paper presents a new adaptive mesh refinement method for solving optimal control problems which avoids the shortcomings of the multiresolution techniques. The method consists of two operation procedures: mesh point insertion and mesh point compression. In the mesh point insertion step, the interpolation error at each point in the old mesh is calculated, and some new mesh points are inserted around each point where the interpolation error is larger than a specified threshold by successively subdividing the neighboring intervals. In the mesh point compression step, the unnecessary mesh points are removed from the mesh by using an improved data compression algorithm based on generalized dyadic meshes.