Distributionally Robust System Level Synthesis With Output Feedback Affine Control Policy

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Main Authors: Li, Yun, Shi, Jicheng, Jones, Colin N., Yorke-Smith, Neil, Keviczky, Tamas
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Published: 2025
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author Li, Yun
Shi, Jicheng
Jones, Colin N.
Yorke-Smith, Neil
Keviczky, Tamas
author_facet Li, Yun
Shi, Jicheng
Jones, Colin N.
Yorke-Smith, Neil
Keviczky, Tamas
contents This paper studies the finite-horizon robust optimal control of constrained linear systems subject to model mismatch and additive stochastic disturbances. Utilizing the system level synthesis (SLS) parameterization, we propose a novel SLS design using an output-feedback affine control policy and extend it to a distributionally robust setting to improve system resilience by minimizing the cost function while ensuring constraint satisfaction against the worst-case uncertainty distribution. The scopes of model mismatch and stochastic disturbances are quantified using the 1-norm and a Wasserstein metric-based ambiguity set, respectively. For the closed-loop dynamics, we analyze the distributional shift between the predicted output-input response -- computed using nominal parameters and empirical disturbance samples -- and the actual closed-loop distribution, highlighting its dependence on model mismatch and SLS parameterization. Assuming convex and Lipschitz continuous cost functions and constraints, we derive a tractable reformulation of the distributionally robust SLS (DR-SLS) problem by leveraging tools from robust control and distributionally robust optimization (DRO). Numerical experiments validate the performance and robustness of the proposed approach.
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spellingShingle Distributionally Robust System Level Synthesis With Output Feedback Affine Control Policy
Li, Yun
Shi, Jicheng
Jones, Colin N.
Yorke-Smith, Neil
Keviczky, Tamas
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
This paper studies the finite-horizon robust optimal control of constrained linear systems subject to model mismatch and additive stochastic disturbances. Utilizing the system level synthesis (SLS) parameterization, we propose a novel SLS design using an output-feedback affine control policy and extend it to a distributionally robust setting to improve system resilience by minimizing the cost function while ensuring constraint satisfaction against the worst-case uncertainty distribution. The scopes of model mismatch and stochastic disturbances are quantified using the 1-norm and a Wasserstein metric-based ambiguity set, respectively. For the closed-loop dynamics, we analyze the distributional shift between the predicted output-input response -- computed using nominal parameters and empirical disturbance samples -- and the actual closed-loop distribution, highlighting its dependence on model mismatch and SLS parameterization. Assuming convex and Lipschitz continuous cost functions and constraints, we derive a tractable reformulation of the distributionally robust SLS (DR-SLS) problem by leveraging tools from robust control and distributionally robust optimization (DRO). Numerical experiments validate the performance and robustness of the proposed approach.
title Distributionally Robust System Level Synthesis With Output Feedback Affine Control Policy
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05466