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Feasibility, uncertainty and interpolation

Feasibility, uncertainty and interpolation. J. A. Rossiter (Sheffield, UK). Overview. Predictive control (MPC) Interpolation instead of optimisation Invariant sets Combining invariant sets Illustrations Conclusions. BACKGROUND. Notation. Assume a state space model and constraints

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Feasibility, uncertainty and interpolation

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  1. Feasibility, uncertainty and interpolation J. A. Rossiter (Sheffield, UK)

  2. Overview • Predictive control (MPC) • Interpolation instead of optimisation • Invariant sets • Combining invariant sets • Illustrations • Conclusions. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  3. BACKGROUND IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  4. Notation • Assume a state space model and constraints • Let the control law be • Define the maximal admissible set (MAS), that is region within which constraints are met, as IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  5. Invariant set and closed-loop trajectories IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  6. Predictive control • Minimise a performance index of the form • Can write solutions as IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  7. Impact on invariant sets of adding d.o.f. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  8. Observations • If terminal control is optimal, then the terminal region may be small. • Need large d.o.f. to get large feasible region. • Good performance • If terminal control is detuned, terminal region may be large. • Small d.o.f. to get large feasible region. • Suboptimal performance. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  9. INTERPOLATION IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  10. Alternative strategy Interpolation is known to: • Allow efficient (often trivial) optimisations. • Combine qualities of different strategies. Interpolate between K1 and K2 where: • K1 has optimal performance but possibly a small feasible region • K2 has large feasible region. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  11. MAS with K1 and K2 IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  12. How to interpolate A simple summary: split the state into 2 components and predict separately through the 2 closed-loop dynamics, then recombine. Decomposition into x1 and x2 to ensure constraint satisfaction. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  13. Ellipsoidal invariant sets Find max. volume feasible invariant ellipsoid. By necessity conservative in volume. Can be computed easily, even with model uncertainty. Generalised interpolation algorithm takes convex hull of several ellipsoids. SDP solver required. Polytopic invariant sets Can use MAS – maximum possible feasible regions. Easily computed for nominal case only. Various interpolation algorithms for certain case. Still limited to convex hull of underlying sets. Optimisation requires QP or LP. Feasible regions with Interpolation IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  14. Weakness of ellipsoidal sets IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  15. Feasible regions (figures) IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  16. When to use Interpolation? Which is more efficient: • A normal MPC algorithm with d.o.f.? • An interpolation? ONEDOF interpolations have only one d.o.f. but severely restricted feasibility. General interpolation requires nx d.o.f. (nx the state dimension). IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  17. Feasible regions with general interpolation, ONEDOF and nc d.o.f. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  18. Weaknesses of interpolation • Algorithms using MAS can only be applied to the nominal case. • Easy to show that uncertainty can cause infeasibility and instability. • Need modifications to cater for uncertainty. Here we consider changes to cater for LPV systems. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  19. POLYTOPIC INVARIANT SETS IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  20. The computation of these is generally considered tractable. Let constraints be Then the MAS is given as Where for n large enough. [Redundant rows can be removed in general.] Polytopic invariant sets (MAS) for nominal systems IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  21. The computation of these is generally considered intractable. Consider a closed-loop LPV system Then computing all possible open-loop predictions. Clearly, there is a combinatorial explosion in the number of terms. Polytopic invariant sets for LPV systems IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  22. There is a need for an alternative approach. [Pluymers et al, ACC 2005] Specifically, remove redundant constraints from Mi before computing Mi+1. This will slow the rate of growth and produce a tractable algorithm, if, the actual MAS is of reasonable complexity. Polytopic invariant sets for LPV systems IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  23. Robust and nominal invariant sets IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  24. Polytopic invariant sets and interpolation MUST USE ROBUST SETS TO ENSURE FEASIBILITY! • We can simply use the ‘robust’ invariant sets in the algorithm developed for the nominal case. • Proofs of recursive feasibility and convergence carry across easily if the cost is replaced by a suitable upper bound. • (A quadratic stabilisability condition is required.) IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  25. Summary Polytopic invariant sets allow the use of interpolation with LPV systems and hence: • Large feasible regions. • Robustness. • Small computational load. BUT: General interpolation still only applicable to convex hull of underlying regions. This could be too restrictive. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  26. EXPLICIT OR IMPLICIT CONSTRAINT HANDLING IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  27. Extending feasibility of interpolation methods General interpolation does implicit not explicit constraint handling. So: • membership of the set implies the trajectories are feasible. • non-membership may not imply infeasibility. Therefore, we know that feasibility may be extended beyond the convex hull in general, but how ? IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  28. With ellipsoidal invariant sets this is obvious. Constraints are converted into an LMI, with some conservatism because of: Asymmetry Conversion of linear inequalities to quadratic inequalities. A trivial example of this might be or Implicit constraint handling IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  29. Conservatism with linear inequalities • Define the invariant sets associated to K1, K2,… to be • Then, general interpolation first splits x into several components and uses the constraints IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  30. Conservatism with linear inequalities (b) • The constraint enforces feasibility. • However, consider the following hypothetical illustration: • This implies that IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  31. Remarks • The constraint is necessary with ellipsoidal invariant sets as one can not check predictions explicitly against constraints. • This is not the case with polytopic invariant sets. • Hence we propose to relax this condition and hence increase feasible regions. • Remove the two conditions IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  32. General interpolation can be composed as We propose to replace this as a single inequality: NOTE: No longer any  variables! Relaxed constraints IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  33. Structure of inequalities (nominal case) • Consider the predictions • And hence the explicit constraints are IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  34. ILLUSTRATIONS IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  35. Illustrations • There can be surprisingly large increases in feasibility. • Probably because the directionality of trajectories for each controller are different. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  36. Extensions to the LPV case • Unfortunately, explicit constraint handling requires a direct link between the prediction equations and the inequalities. • However, the algorithm for finding polytopic invariant sets in the LPV case, relied, for efficiency, on removing redundant constraints from the predictions. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  37. Extensions to the LPV case (b) • For the original GIMPC, sets S1, S2,.. could be described as efficiently as possible. There was no need for mutual consistency because constraint handling was implicit. • Notably, all redundant inequalities could be eliminated. • When doing explicit constraint handling, redundant constraints cannot be eliminated from Si, just in case the overall x(k+j) for that row is against a constraint! IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  38. Constraints for general interpolation with LPV systems • Algorithms can be written to formulate the inequalities, but suffer more from the combinatorial growth problems outlined earlier. • Assuming the resulting sets are not too large, proofs of convergence and feasibility are straightforward. IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  39. Illustration of inequalities IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

  40. Conclusions • Interpolation is known to facilitate reductions in complexity at times, particular for low dimensional systems. However most work has focussed on the nominal case. • Some earlier interpolation algorithms used implicit constraint handling to cater for uncertainty. This could lead to considerable conservatism. • We have illustrated: • How interpolation can be modified to overcome this conservatism and the associated issues (recently submitted). • how polytopic robust MAS might be computed and used in MPC (to be published IFAC and ACC, 2005). • how to use polytopic robust MAS with interpolation (recently submitted). IEEE Colloquium, April 4th 2005

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