Persistently Exciting Online Feedback Optimization Controller with Minimal Perturbations

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Autores principales: Gude, Tore, Zagorowska, Marta Anna, Imsland, Lars Struen
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Publicado: 2025
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author Gude, Tore
Zagorowska, Marta Anna
Imsland, Lars Struen
author_facet Gude, Tore
Zagorowska, Marta Anna
Imsland, Lars Struen
contents This paper develops a persistently exciting input generating Online Feedback Optimization (OFO) controller that estimates the sensitivity of a process ensuring minimal deviations from the descent direction while converging. This eliminates the need for random perturbations in feedback loop. The proposed controller is formulated as a bilevel optimization program, where a nonconvex full rank constraint is relaxed using linear constraints and penalization. The validation of the method is performed in a simulated scenario where multiple systems share a limited, costly resource for production optimization, simulating an oil and gas resource allocation problem. The method allows for less input perturbations while accurately estimating gradients, allowing faster convergence when the gradients are unknown. In the case study, the proposed method achieved the same profit compared to an OFO controller with random input perturbations, and $1.4\%$ higher profit compared to an OFO controller without input perturbations.
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spellingShingle Persistently Exciting Online Feedback Optimization Controller with Minimal Perturbations
Gude, Tore
Zagorowska, Marta Anna
Imsland, Lars Struen
Systems and Control
This paper develops a persistently exciting input generating Online Feedback Optimization (OFO) controller that estimates the sensitivity of a process ensuring minimal deviations from the descent direction while converging. This eliminates the need for random perturbations in feedback loop. The proposed controller is formulated as a bilevel optimization program, where a nonconvex full rank constraint is relaxed using linear constraints and penalization. The validation of the method is performed in a simulated scenario where multiple systems share a limited, costly resource for production optimization, simulating an oil and gas resource allocation problem. The method allows for less input perturbations while accurately estimating gradients, allowing faster convergence when the gradients are unknown. In the case study, the proposed method achieved the same profit compared to an OFO controller with random input perturbations, and $1.4\%$ higher profit compared to an OFO controller without input perturbations.
title Persistently Exciting Online Feedback Optimization Controller with Minimal Perturbations
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19910