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Main Authors: Schüepp, Lukas, De Pasquale, Giulia, Dörfler, Florian, Alonso, Carmen Amo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01677
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author Schüepp, Lukas
De Pasquale, Giulia
Dörfler, Florian
Alonso, Carmen Amo
author_facet Schüepp, Lukas
De Pasquale, Giulia
Dörfler, Florian
Alonso, Carmen Amo
contents There is an increasing need for effective control of systems with complex dynamics, particularly through data-driven approaches. System Level Synthesis (SLS) has emerged as a powerful framework that facilitates the control of large-scale systems while accounting for model uncertainties. SLS approaches are currently limited to linear systems and time-varying linear control policies, thus limiting the class of achievable control strategies. We introduce a novel closed-loop parameterization for time-varying affine control policies, extending the SLS framework to a broader class of systems and policies. We show that the closed-loop behavior under affine policies can be equivalently characterized using past system trajectories, enabling a fully data-driven formulation. This parameterization seamlessly integrates affine policies into optimal control problems, allowing for a closed-loop formulation of general Model Predictive Control (MPC) problems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to extend SLS to affine policies in both model-based and data-driven settings, enabling an equivalent formulation of MPC problems using closed-loop maps. We validate our approach through numerical experiments, demonstrating that our model-based and data-driven affine SLS formulations achieve performance on par with traditional model-based MPC.
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spellingShingle System Level Synthesis for Affine Control Policies: Model Based and Data-Driven Settings
Schüepp, Lukas
De Pasquale, Giulia
Dörfler, Florian
Alonso, Carmen Amo
Systems and Control
There is an increasing need for effective control of systems with complex dynamics, particularly through data-driven approaches. System Level Synthesis (SLS) has emerged as a powerful framework that facilitates the control of large-scale systems while accounting for model uncertainties. SLS approaches are currently limited to linear systems and time-varying linear control policies, thus limiting the class of achievable control strategies. We introduce a novel closed-loop parameterization for time-varying affine control policies, extending the SLS framework to a broader class of systems and policies. We show that the closed-loop behavior under affine policies can be equivalently characterized using past system trajectories, enabling a fully data-driven formulation. This parameterization seamlessly integrates affine policies into optimal control problems, allowing for a closed-loop formulation of general Model Predictive Control (MPC) problems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to extend SLS to affine policies in both model-based and data-driven settings, enabling an equivalent formulation of MPC problems using closed-loop maps. We validate our approach through numerical experiments, demonstrating that our model-based and data-driven affine SLS formulations achieve performance on par with traditional model-based MPC.
title System Level Synthesis for Affine Control Policies: Model Based and Data-Driven Settings
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01677