Distributionally Robust Infinite-horizon Control: from a pool of samples to the design of dependable controllers

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Autores principales: Brouillon, Jean-Sébastien, Martin, Andrea, Lygeros, John, Dörfler, Florian, Trecate, Giancarlo Ferrari
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Publicado: 2023
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author Brouillon, Jean-Sébastien
Martin, Andrea
Lygeros, John
Dörfler, Florian
Trecate, Giancarlo Ferrari
author_facet Brouillon, Jean-Sébastien
Martin, Andrea
Lygeros, John
Dörfler, Florian
Trecate, Giancarlo Ferrari
contents We study control of constrained linear systems with only partial statistical information about the uncertainty affecting the system dynamics and the sensor measurements. Specifically, given a finite collection of disturbance realizations drawn from a generic distribution, we consider the problem of designing a stabilizing control policy with provable safety and performance guarantees despite the mismatch between the empirical and true distributions. We capture this discrepancy using Wasserstein ambiguity sets, and we formulate a distributionally robust (DR) optimal control problem, which provides guarantees on the expected cost, safety, and stability of the system. To solve this problem, we first present new results for DR optimization of quadratic objectives using convex programming, showing that strong duality holds under mild conditions. Then, by combining our results with the system-level parametrization of linear feedback policies, we show that the design problem can be reduced to a semidefinite program. We present numerical simulations to validate the effectiveness of our approach and to highlight the value of empirical distributions for control design.
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spellingShingle Distributionally Robust Infinite-horizon Control: from a pool of samples to the design of dependable controllers
Brouillon, Jean-Sébastien
Martin, Andrea
Lygeros, John
Dörfler, Florian
Trecate, Giancarlo Ferrari
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
We study control of constrained linear systems with only partial statistical information about the uncertainty affecting the system dynamics and the sensor measurements. Specifically, given a finite collection of disturbance realizations drawn from a generic distribution, we consider the problem of designing a stabilizing control policy with provable safety and performance guarantees despite the mismatch between the empirical and true distributions. We capture this discrepancy using Wasserstein ambiguity sets, and we formulate a distributionally robust (DR) optimal control problem, which provides guarantees on the expected cost, safety, and stability of the system. To solve this problem, we first present new results for DR optimization of quadratic objectives using convex programming, showing that strong duality holds under mild conditions. Then, by combining our results with the system-level parametrization of linear feedback policies, we show that the design problem can be reduced to a semidefinite program. We present numerical simulations to validate the effectiveness of our approach and to highlight the value of empirical distributions for control design.
title Distributionally Robust Infinite-horizon Control: from a pool of samples to the design of dependable controllers
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07324