Insights into the explainability of Lasso-based DeePC for nonlinear systems

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Hauptverfasser: Giacomelli, Gianluca, Formentin, Simone, Lopez, Victor G., Müller, Matthias A., Breschi, Valentina
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author Giacomelli, Gianluca
Formentin, Simone
Lopez, Victor G.
Müller, Matthias A.
Breschi, Valentina
author_facet Giacomelli, Gianluca
Formentin, Simone
Lopez, Victor G.
Müller, Matthias A.
Breschi, Valentina
contents Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) has recently gained the spotlight as an easy-to-use control technique that allows for constraint handling while relying on raw data only. Initially proposed for linear time-invariant systems, several DeePC extensions are now available to cope with nonlinear systems. Nonetheless, these solutions mainly focus on ensuring the controller's effectiveness, overlooking the explainability of the final result. As a step toward explaining the outcome of DeePC for the control of nonlinear systems, in this paper, we focus on analyzing the earliest and simplest DeePC approach proposed to cope with nonlinearities in the controlled system, using a Lasso regularization. Our theoretical analysis highlights that the decisions undertaken by DeePC with Lasso regularization are unexplainable, as control actions are determined by data incoherent with the system's local behavior. This result is true even when the available input/output samples are grouped according to the different operating conditions explored during data collection. Our numerical study confirms these findings, highlighting the benefits of data grouping in terms of performance while showing that explainability remains a challenge in control design via DeePC.
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spellingShingle Insights into the explainability of Lasso-based DeePC for nonlinear systems
Giacomelli, Gianluca
Formentin, Simone
Lopez, Victor G.
Müller, Matthias A.
Breschi, Valentina
Systems and Control
Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) has recently gained the spotlight as an easy-to-use control technique that allows for constraint handling while relying on raw data only. Initially proposed for linear time-invariant systems, several DeePC extensions are now available to cope with nonlinear systems. Nonetheless, these solutions mainly focus on ensuring the controller's effectiveness, overlooking the explainability of the final result. As a step toward explaining the outcome of DeePC for the control of nonlinear systems, in this paper, we focus on analyzing the earliest and simplest DeePC approach proposed to cope with nonlinearities in the controlled system, using a Lasso regularization. Our theoretical analysis highlights that the decisions undertaken by DeePC with Lasso regularization are unexplainable, as control actions are determined by data incoherent with the system's local behavior. This result is true even when the available input/output samples are grouped according to the different operating conditions explored during data collection. Our numerical study confirms these findings, highlighting the benefits of data grouping in terms of performance while showing that explainability remains a challenge in control design via DeePC.
title Insights into the explainability of Lasso-based DeePC for nonlinear systems
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19163