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Robust optimal control with adjustable uncertainty sets

Zhang, Xiaojing
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Kamgarpour, Maryam  
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Georghiou, Angelos
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2017
Automatica

In this paper, we develop a unified framework for studying constrained robust optimal control problems with adjustable uncertainty sets. In contrast to standard constrained robust optimal control problems with known uncertainty sets, we treat the uncertainty sets in our problems as additional decision variables. In particular, given a finite prediction horizon and a metric for adjusting the uncertainty sets, we address the question of determining the optimal size and shape of the uncertainty sets, while simultaneously ensuring the existence of a control policy that will keep the system within its constraints for all possible disturbance realizations inside the adjusted uncertainty set. Since our problem subsumes the classical constrained robust optimal control design problem, it is computationally intractable in general. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that by restricting the families of admissible uncertainty sets and control policies, the problem can be formulated as a tractable convex optimization problem. We show that our framework captures several families of (convex) uncertainty sets of practical interest, and illustrate our approach on a demand response problem of providing control reserves for a power system.

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DOI
10.1016/j.automatica.2016.09.016
Author(s)
Zhang, Xiaojing
Kamgarpour, Maryam  
Georghiou, Angelos
Goulart, Paul
Lygeros, John
Date Issued

2017

Published in
Automatica
Volume

75

Start page

249

End page

259

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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SYCAMORE  
Available on Infoscience
December 1, 2021
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/183364
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