Question about putting variable outside @animation

I’m trying out a simple optimization script on Pluto. @animate should make run Ipop.optimizer for each frame, and save them to gif. I don’t undestand the error message. I used Jump, Ipopt, and plots. The following codes were separated in two blocks. Is the syntax correct?

function run_mpc(initial_position, initial_velocity)
    
    model = Model(Ipopt.Optimizer)

    Δt = 0.1
    num_time_steps = 10
    max_acceleration = 0.5

    @variables model begin
        position[1:2, 1:num_time_steps]
        velocity[1:2, 1:num_time_steps]
        -max_acceleration <= acceleration[1:2, 1:num_time_steps] <= max_acceleration
    end

    # Dynamics constraints
    @constraint(model, [i=2:num_time_steps, j=1:2],
                velocity[j, i] == velocity[j, i - 1] + acceleration[j, i - 1] * Δt)
    @constraint(model, [i=2:num_time_steps, j=1:2],
                position[j, i] == position[j, i - 1] + velocity[j, i - 1] * Δt)

    # Cost function: minimize final position and final velocity
    @objective(model, Min, 
        100 * sum(position[:, end].^2) + sum(velocity[:, end].^2))

    # Initial conditions:
    @constraint(model, position[:, 1] .== initial_position)
    @constraint(model, velocity[:, 1] .== initial_velocity)

    optimize!(model)
    return value.(position), value.(velocity), value.(acceleration)
end;

begin
	# The robot's starting position and velocity
	q = [1.0, 0.0]
	v = [0.0, -1.0]
	
	anim = @animate for i in 1:80
	    # Plot the current position
	    plot([q[1]], [q[2]], marker=(:hex, 10), xlim=(-1.1, 1.1), ylim=(-1.1, 1.1))
	    
	    # Run the MPC control optimization
	    q_plan, v_plan, u_plan = run_mpc(q, v)
	    
	    # Draw the planned future states from the MPC optimization
	    plot!(q_plan[1, :], q_plan[2, :], linewidth=5)
	    
	    # Apply the planned acceleration and simulate one step in time
	    u = u_plan[:, 1]
	    v += u * Δt
	    q += v * Δt
	end
	gif(anim, "/var/folders/wx/frhmhdss0sz_hpmj50jfsdfm0000gn/T/jl_ILRYVL/mpc2.gif")
end

I think you need to annotate the following two variables as global inside the macro @animate:

global v += u * Δt
global q += v * Δt

NB: Δt is not defined in your MWE. Consider also the fps argument to gif()

That solved the issue thanks!