Efficient Strategy Synthesis for Switched Stochastic Systems with Distributional Uncertainty

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Hauptverfasser: Gracia, Ibon, Boskos, Dimitris, Lahijanian, Morteza, Laurenti, Luca, Mazo Jr, Manuel
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author Gracia, Ibon
Boskos, Dimitris
Lahijanian, Morteza
Laurenti, Luca
Mazo Jr, Manuel
author_facet Gracia, Ibon
Boskos, Dimitris
Lahijanian, Morteza
Laurenti, Luca
Mazo Jr, Manuel
contents We introduce a framework for the control of discrete-time switched stochastic systems with uncertain distributions. In particular, we consider stochastic dynamics with additive noise whose distribution lies in an ambiguity set of distributions that are $\varepsilon-$close, in the Wasserstein distance sense, to a nominal one. We propose algorithms for the efficient synthesis of distributionally robust control strategies that maximize the satisfaction probability of reach-avoid specifications with either a given or an arbitrary (not specified) time horizon, i.e., unbounded-time reachability. The framework consists of two main steps: finite abstraction and control synthesis. First, we construct a finite abstraction of the switched stochastic system as a \emph{robust Markov decision process} (robust MDP) that encompasses both the stochasticity of the system and the uncertainty in the noise distribution. Then, we synthesize a strategy that is robust to the distributional uncertainty on the resulting robust MDP. We employ techniques from optimal transport and stochastic programming to reduce the strategy synthesis problem to a set of linear programs, and propose a tailored and efficient algorithm to solve them. The resulting strategies are correctly refined into switching strategies for the original stochastic system. We illustrate the efficacy of our framework on various case studies comprising both linear and non-linear switched stochastic systems.
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spellingShingle Efficient Strategy Synthesis for Switched Stochastic Systems with Distributional Uncertainty
Gracia, Ibon
Boskos, Dimitris
Lahijanian, Morteza
Laurenti, Luca
Mazo Jr, Manuel
Systems and Control
We introduce a framework for the control of discrete-time switched stochastic systems with uncertain distributions. In particular, we consider stochastic dynamics with additive noise whose distribution lies in an ambiguity set of distributions that are $\varepsilon-$close, in the Wasserstein distance sense, to a nominal one. We propose algorithms for the efficient synthesis of distributionally robust control strategies that maximize the satisfaction probability of reach-avoid specifications with either a given or an arbitrary (not specified) time horizon, i.e., unbounded-time reachability. The framework consists of two main steps: finite abstraction and control synthesis. First, we construct a finite abstraction of the switched stochastic system as a \emph{robust Markov decision process} (robust MDP) that encompasses both the stochasticity of the system and the uncertainty in the noise distribution. Then, we synthesize a strategy that is robust to the distributional uncertainty on the resulting robust MDP. We employ techniques from optimal transport and stochastic programming to reduce the strategy synthesis problem to a set of linear programs, and propose a tailored and efficient algorithm to solve them. The resulting strategies are correctly refined into switching strategies for the original stochastic system. We illustrate the efficacy of our framework on various case studies comprising both linear and non-linear switched stochastic systems.
title Efficient Strategy Synthesis for Switched Stochastic Systems with Distributional Uncertainty
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14260