Title
A robust MPC approach to the design of behavioural treatments
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to provide some initial results on the application of control tools to the problem treatment design. Human behavior and reaction to treatment is complex and dependent on many unmeasurable external stimuli. Therefore, to the best of our knowledge, it cannot be described by simple models. Hence, one of the main messages in this paper is that, to design a treatment (controller) one cannot rely on exact models. More precisely, to be able to design effective treatments, we propose to use “simple” uncertain affine models whose response “covers” the most probable subject responses. So, we propose a simple model that contains two different types of uncertainties: one aimed at uncertainty of the dynamics and another aimed at approximating external perturbations that patients face in their daily life. With this model at hand, we design a robust model predictive controller, where one relies on the special structure of the uncertainty to develop efficient optimization algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/CDC.2013.6760421
Decision and Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimisation,predictive control,robust control,behavioural treatments,external perturbations,optimization algorithms,robust MPC approach,robust model predictive controller
Affine transformation,Control theory,Mathematical optimization,Computer science,Control theory,Model predictive control,Optimization algorithm,Robust control
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-1546
978-1-4673-5714-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bekiroglu, K.1115.32
Constantino M. Lagoa216425.38
Suzan A. Murphy310.38
Stephanie T. Lanza4142.07