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Main Authors: Shida, Yuma, Ito, Yuji
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19860
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author Shida, Yuma
Ito, Yuji
author_facet Shida, Yuma
Ito, Yuji
contents Distributionally robust optimal control (DROC) is gaining interest. This study presents a reformulation method for discrete DROC (DDROC) problems to design optimal control policies under a worst-case distributional uncertainty. The reformulation of DDROC problems impacts both the utility of tractable improvements in continuous DROC problems and the inherent discretization modeling of DROC problems. DROC is believed to have tractability issues; namely, infinite inequalities emerge over the distribution space. Therefore, investigating tractable reformulation methods for these DROC problems is crucial. One such method utilizes the strong dualities of the worst-case expectations. However, previous studies demonstrated that certain non-trivial inequalities remain after the reformulation. To enhance the tractability of DDROC, the proposed method reformulates DDROC problems into one-layer smooth convex programming with only a few trivial inequalities. The proposed method is applied to a DDROC version of a patrol-agent design problem.
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spellingShingle Discrete Distributionally Robust Optimal Control with Explicitly Constrained Optimization
Shida, Yuma
Ito, Yuji
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
Distributionally robust optimal control (DROC) is gaining interest. This study presents a reformulation method for discrete DROC (DDROC) problems to design optimal control policies under a worst-case distributional uncertainty. The reformulation of DDROC problems impacts both the utility of tractable improvements in continuous DROC problems and the inherent discretization modeling of DROC problems. DROC is believed to have tractability issues; namely, infinite inequalities emerge over the distribution space. Therefore, investigating tractable reformulation methods for these DROC problems is crucial. One such method utilizes the strong dualities of the worst-case expectations. However, previous studies demonstrated that certain non-trivial inequalities remain after the reformulation. To enhance the tractability of DDROC, the proposed method reformulates DDROC problems into one-layer smooth convex programming with only a few trivial inequalities. The proposed method is applied to a DDROC version of a patrol-agent design problem.
title Discrete Distributionally Robust Optimal Control with Explicitly Constrained Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19860