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Control of unknown nonlinear systems with efficient transient performance using concurrent exploitation and

E B Kosmatopoulos¹

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi 67100, Greece. kosmatop@dssl.tuc.gr

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|July 20, 2010

Summary

This study introduces a novel adaptive control method that concurrently handles system exploration and exploitation. It achieves efficient control of unknown dynamical systems without performance sacrifice during learning.

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Published on: November 24, 2021

Area of Science:

Robotics and Control Systems
Machine Learning for Control

Background:

Controlling unknown dynamical systems presents the exploitation-exploration dilemma, often leading to performance degradation during learning.
Existing methods struggle to balance learning new control strategies with maintaining stable system performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a control scheme that concurrently performs exploitation and exploration for unknown dynamical systems.
To achieve efficient state feedback stabilization without sacrificing performance during the learning phase.

Main Methods:

Combines recent advances in adaptive control and adaptive optimization.
Introduces a new convex construction of control Lyapunov functions for nonlinear systems.
Integrates these techniques into a unified control scheme.

Main Results:

Demonstrates concurrent exploitation and exploration without performance loss.
Guarantees arbitrarily good performance in controllable regions of the system.
Validated through theoretical analysis and simulations on a challenging control problem.

Conclusions:

The proposed method effectively addresses the exploitation-exploration dilemma in adaptive control.
Enables efficient and stable control of unknown nonlinear dynamical systems.
Offers a promising approach for real-world applications requiring robust adaptive control.