Split-as-a-Pro: behavioral control via operator splitting and alternating projections

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Main Authors: Tang, Yu, Cenedese, Carlo, Rimoldi, Alessio, Dórfler, Florian, Lygeros, John, Padoan, Alberto
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Published: 2025
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author Tang, Yu
Cenedese, Carlo
Rimoldi, Alessio
Dórfler, Florian
Lygeros, John
Padoan, Alberto
author_facet Tang, Yu
Cenedese, Carlo
Rimoldi, Alessio
Dórfler, Florian
Lygeros, John
Padoan, Alberto
contents The paper introduces Split-as-a-Pro, a control framework that integrates behavioral systems theory, operator splitting methods, and alternating projection algorithms. The framework reduces dynamic optimization problems - arising in both control and estimation - to efficient projection computations. Split-as-a-Pro builds on a non-parametric formulation that exploits system structure to separate dynamic constraints imposed by individual subsystems from external ones, such as interconnection constraints and input/output constraints. This enables the use of arbitrary system representations, as long as the associated projection is efficiently computable, thereby enhancing scalability and compatibility with gray-box modeling. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Split-as-a-Pro by developing a distributed algorithm for solving finite-horizon linear quadratic control problems and illustrate its use in predictive control. Our numerical case studies show that algorithms obtained using Split-as-a-Pro significantly outperform their centralized counterparts in runtime and scalability across various standard graph topologies, while seamlessly leveraging both model-based and data-driven system representations.
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spellingShingle Split-as-a-Pro: behavioral control via operator splitting and alternating projections
Tang, Yu
Cenedese, Carlo
Rimoldi, Alessio
Dórfler, Florian
Lygeros, John
Padoan, Alberto
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
The paper introduces Split-as-a-Pro, a control framework that integrates behavioral systems theory, operator splitting methods, and alternating projection algorithms. The framework reduces dynamic optimization problems - arising in both control and estimation - to efficient projection computations. Split-as-a-Pro builds on a non-parametric formulation that exploits system structure to separate dynamic constraints imposed by individual subsystems from external ones, such as interconnection constraints and input/output constraints. This enables the use of arbitrary system representations, as long as the associated projection is efficiently computable, thereby enhancing scalability and compatibility with gray-box modeling. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Split-as-a-Pro by developing a distributed algorithm for solving finite-horizon linear quadratic control problems and illustrate its use in predictive control. Our numerical case studies show that algorithms obtained using Split-as-a-Pro significantly outperform their centralized counterparts in runtime and scalability across various standard graph topologies, while seamlessly leveraging both model-based and data-driven system representations.
title Split-as-a-Pro: behavioral control via operator splitting and alternating projections
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19411