A new technique for inconsistent QP problems in the SQP method

Successful treatment of inconsistent QP problems is of major importance in the SQP method, since such occur quite often even for well behaved nonlinear programming problems. This paper presents a new technique for regularizing inconsistent QP problems, which compromises in its properties between the simple technique of Pantoja and Mayne [36] and the highly successful, but expensive one of Tone [47]. Global convergence of a corresponding algorithm is shown under reasonable weak conditions. Numerical results are reported which show that this technique, combined with a special method for the case of regular subproblems, is quite competitive to highly appreciated established ones. Copyright Physica-Verlag 1998