On degeneracy in exploration of combinatorial tree in multi-parametric quadratic programming

Overview & Synopsis

The recently proposed combinatorial approach for multi-parametric quadratic programming (mpQP) has shown to be more efficient than geometric approaches in finding the complete solution when dealing with systems with high dimension of the parameter vector. This method, however, tends to become very slow as the number of constraints increases. Recently, a modification of the combinatorial method is proposed which exploits some of the underlying geometric properties of adjacent critical regions to exclude a noticeable number of feasible but not optimal candidate active sets from the combinatorial tree. This method is followed by a post-processing algorithm based on the geometric operations to assure that the complete solution is found which is time-consuming and prone to numerical errors in high-dimensional systems. In this paper, we characterize degenerate optimal active sets and modify the exploration algorithm such that the complete solution is guaranteed to be found in a general case, which can have degeneracies as well, concurrent with the exploration of combinatorial tree. Simulation results confirm the reliability of the suggested method in finding all critical regions while decreasing the computational time significantly.