Harnessing Uncertainty for a Separation Principle in Direct Data-Driven Predictive Control

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Main Authors: Chiuso, Alessandro, Fabris, Marco, Breschi, Valentina, Formentin, Simone
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Published: 2023
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author Chiuso, Alessandro
Fabris, Marco
Breschi, Valentina
Formentin, Simone
author_facet Chiuso, Alessandro
Fabris, Marco
Breschi, Valentina
Formentin, Simone
contents Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful method for complex system regulation, but its reliance on an accurate model poses many limitations in real-world applications. Data-driven predictive control (DDPC) aims at overcoming this limitation, by relying on historical data to provide information on the plant to be controlled. In this work, we present a unified stochastic framework for direct DDPC, where control actions are obtained by optimizing the Final Control Error (FCE), which is directly computed from available data only and automatically weighs the impact of uncertainty on the control objective. Our framework allows us to establish a separation principle for Predictive Control, elucidating the role that predictive models and their uncertainty play in DDPC. Moreover, it generalizes existing DDPC methods, like regularized Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and $γ$-DDPC, providing a path toward noise-tolerant data-based control with rigorous optimality guarantees. The theoretical investigation is complemented by a series of experiments (code available on GitHub: https://github.com/marcofabris92/a-separation-principle-in-d3pc), revealing that the proposed method consistently outperforms or, at worst, matches existing techniques without requiring tuning regularization parameters as other methods do.
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spellingShingle Harnessing Uncertainty for a Separation Principle in Direct Data-Driven Predictive Control
Chiuso, Alessandro
Fabris, Marco
Breschi, Valentina
Formentin, Simone
Systems and Control
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful method for complex system regulation, but its reliance on an accurate model poses many limitations in real-world applications. Data-driven predictive control (DDPC) aims at overcoming this limitation, by relying on historical data to provide information on the plant to be controlled. In this work, we present a unified stochastic framework for direct DDPC, where control actions are obtained by optimizing the Final Control Error (FCE), which is directly computed from available data only and automatically weighs the impact of uncertainty on the control objective. Our framework allows us to establish a separation principle for Predictive Control, elucidating the role that predictive models and their uncertainty play in DDPC. Moreover, it generalizes existing DDPC methods, like regularized Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and $γ$-DDPC, providing a path toward noise-tolerant data-based control with rigorous optimality guarantees. The theoretical investigation is complemented by a series of experiments (code available on GitHub: https://github.com/marcofabris92/a-separation-principle-in-d3pc), revealing that the proposed method consistently outperforms or, at worst, matches existing techniques without requiring tuning regularization parameters as other methods do.
title Harnessing Uncertainty for a Separation Principle in Direct Data-Driven Predictive Control
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14788