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On the Guarantees of Minimizing Regret in Receding Horizon

Martin, Andrea  
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Furieri, Luca  
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Dorfler, Florian
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March 1, 2025
IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control

Toward bridging classical optimal control and online learning, regret minimization has recently been proposed as a control design criterion. This competitive paradigm penalizes the loss relative to the optimal control actions chosen by a clairvoyant policy, and allows tracking the optimal performance in hindsight no matter how disturbances are generated. In this article, we propose the first receding horizon scheme based on the repeated computation of finite horizon regret-optimal policies, and we establish stability and safety guarantees for the resulting closed-loop system. Our derivations combine novel monotonicity properties of clairvoyant policies with suitable terminal ingredients. We prove that our scheme is recursively feasible, stabilizing, and that it achieves bounded regret relative to the infinite horizon clairvoyant policy. Last, we show that the policy optimization problem can be solved efficiently through convex-concave programming. Our numerical experiments show that minimizing regret can outperform standard receding horizon approaches when the disturbances poorly fit classical design assumptions-even when the finite horizon planning is recomputed less frequently.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TAC.2024.3464013
Web of Science ID

WOS:001435459500020

Author(s)
Martin, Andrea  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Furieri, Luca  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dorfler, Florian

Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain

Lygeros, John

Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain

Ferrari-Trecate, Giancarlo  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-03-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control
Volume

70

Issue

3

Start page

1547

End page

1562

Subjects

Safety

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Planning

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Optimization

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Infinite horizon

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Heuristic algorithms

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Costs

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Benchmark testing

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Constrained control

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optimal control

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predictive control for linear systems

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regret-optimal control

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stability of linear systems

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
SCI-STI-GFT  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss National Science Foundation thorugh the NCCR Automation

51NF40_180545

Ambizione

PZ00P2_208951

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