How Much Reserve Fuel: Quantifying the Maximal Energy Cost of System Disturbances

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Main Authors: Padmanabhan, Ram, Bakker, Craig, Dinkar, Siddharth Abhijit, Ornik, Melkior
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Published: 2024
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author Padmanabhan, Ram
Bakker, Craig
Dinkar, Siddharth Abhijit
Ornik, Melkior
author_facet Padmanabhan, Ram
Bakker, Craig
Dinkar, Siddharth Abhijit
Ornik, Melkior
contents Motivated by the design question of additional fuel needed to complete a task in an uncertain environment, this paper introduces metrics to quantify the maximal additional energy used by a control system in the presence of bounded disturbances when compared to a nominal, disturbance-free system. In particular, we consider the task of finite-time stabilization for a linear time-invariant system. We first derive the nominal energy required to achieve this task in a disturbance-free system, and then the worst-case energy over all feasible disturbances. The latter leads to an optimal control problem with a least-squares solution, and then an infinite-dimensional optimization problem where we derive an upper bound on the solution. The comparison of these energies is accomplished using additive and multiplicative metrics, and we derive analytical bounds on these metrics. Simulation examples on an ADMIRE fighter jet model demonstrate the practicability of these metrics, and their variation with the task hardness, a combination of the distance of the initial condition from the origin and the task completion time.
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spellingShingle How Much Reserve Fuel: Quantifying the Maximal Energy Cost of System Disturbances
Padmanabhan, Ram
Bakker, Craig
Dinkar, Siddharth Abhijit
Ornik, Melkior
Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
Motivated by the design question of additional fuel needed to complete a task in an uncertain environment, this paper introduces metrics to quantify the maximal additional energy used by a control system in the presence of bounded disturbances when compared to a nominal, disturbance-free system. In particular, we consider the task of finite-time stabilization for a linear time-invariant system. We first derive the nominal energy required to achieve this task in a disturbance-free system, and then the worst-case energy over all feasible disturbances. The latter leads to an optimal control problem with a least-squares solution, and then an infinite-dimensional optimization problem where we derive an upper bound on the solution. The comparison of these energies is accomplished using additive and multiplicative metrics, and we derive analytical bounds on these metrics. Simulation examples on an ADMIRE fighter jet model demonstrate the practicability of these metrics, and their variation with the task hardness, a combination of the distance of the initial condition from the origin and the task completion time.
title How Much Reserve Fuel: Quantifying the Maximal Energy Cost of System Disturbances
topic Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10913