Near-Optimal Distributed Linear-Quadratic Regulator for Networked Systems

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Main Authors: Shin, Sungho, Lin, Yiheng, Qu, Guannan, Wierman, Adam, Anitescu, Mihai
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Published: 2022
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author Shin, Sungho
Lin, Yiheng
Qu, Guannan
Wierman, Adam
Anitescu, Mihai
author_facet Shin, Sungho
Lin, Yiheng
Qu, Guannan
Wierman, Adam
Anitescu, Mihai
contents This paper studies the trade-off between the degree of decentralization and the performance of a distributed controller in a linear-quadratic control setting. We study a system of interconnected agents over a graph and a distributed controller, called $κ$-distributed control, which lets the agents make control decisions based on the state information within distance $κ$ on the underlying graph. This controller can tune its degree of decentralization using the parameter $κ$ and thus allows a characterization of the relationship between decentralization and performance. We show that under mild assumptions, including stabilizability, detectability, and a subexponentially growing graph condition, the performance difference between $κ$-distributed control and centralized optimal control becomes exponentially small in $κ$. This result reveals that distributed control can achieve near-optimal performance with a moderate degree of decentralization, and thus it is an effective controller architecture for large-scale networked systems.
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spellingShingle Near-Optimal Distributed Linear-Quadratic Regulator for Networked Systems
Shin, Sungho
Lin, Yiheng
Qu, Guannan
Wierman, Adam
Anitescu, Mihai
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Dynamical Systems
This paper studies the trade-off between the degree of decentralization and the performance of a distributed controller in a linear-quadratic control setting. We study a system of interconnected agents over a graph and a distributed controller, called $κ$-distributed control, which lets the agents make control decisions based on the state information within distance $κ$ on the underlying graph. This controller can tune its degree of decentralization using the parameter $κ$ and thus allows a characterization of the relationship between decentralization and performance. We show that under mild assumptions, including stabilizability, detectability, and a subexponentially growing graph condition, the performance difference between $κ$-distributed control and centralized optimal control becomes exponentially small in $κ$. This result reveals that distributed control can achieve near-optimal performance with a moderate degree of decentralization, and thus it is an effective controller architecture for large-scale networked systems.
title Near-Optimal Distributed Linear-Quadratic Regulator for Networked Systems
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05551