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Stochastic Event-Based Control and Estimation

Författare

  • Toivo Henningsson

Summary, in English

Digital controllers are traditionally implemented using periodic sampling, computation, and actuation events. As more control systems are implemented to share limited network and CPU bandwidth with other tasks, it is becoming increasingly attractive to use some form of event-based control instead, where precious events are used only when needed.



Forms of event-based control have been used in practice for a very long time, but mostly in an ad-hoc way. Though optimal solutions to most event-based control problems are unknown, it should still be viable to compare performance between suggested approaches in a reasonable manner.



This thesis investigates an event-based variation on the stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) control problem, with a fixed cost per control event. The sporadic constraint of an enforced minimum inter-event time is introduced, yielding a mixed continuous-/discrete-time formulation. The quantitative trade-off between event rate and control performance is compared between periodic and sporadic control. Example problems for first-order plants are investigated, for a single control loop and for multiple loops closed over a shared medium.



Path constraints are introduced to model and analyze higher-order event-based control systems. This component-based approach to stochastic hybrid systems allows to express continuous- and discrete-time dynamics, state and switching constraints, control laws, and stochastic disturbances in the same model. Sum-of-squares techniques are then used to find bounds on control objectives using convex semidefinite programming.



The thesis also considers state estimation for discrete time linear stochastic systems from measurements with convex set uncertainty. The Bayesian observer is considered given log-concave process disturbances and measurement likelihoods. Strong log-concavity is introduced, and it is shown that the observer preserves log-concavity, and propagates strong log-concavity like inverse covariance in a Kalman filter. A recursive state estimator is developed for systems with both stochastic and set-bounded process and measurement noise terms. A time-varying linear filter gain is optimized using convex semidefinite programming and ellipsoidal over-approximation, given a relative weight on the two kinds of error.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

PhD Thesis TFRT-1095

Dokumenttyp

Doktorsavhandling

Förlag

Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University

Ämne

  • Control Engineering

Nyckelord

  • event-based control
  • event-based estimation
  • sporadic control
  • stochastic control
  • stochastic hybrid systems
  • sum-of-squares methods
  • control over networks
  • quantized measurements

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0280-5316
  • ISSN: 0280-5316
  • ISBN: 978-91-7473-410-2

Försvarsdatum

18 december 2012

Försvarstid

10:15

Försvarsplats

Lecture hall M:B, M-building, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund University Faculty of Engineering

Opponent

  • Joao Pedro Hespanha (Professor)