Title
Chance-Constrained Model Predictive Controller Synthesis For Stochastic Max-Plus Linear Systems
Abstract
This paper presents a stochastic model predictive control problem for a class of discrete event systems, namely stochastic max-plus linear systems, which are of wide practical interest as they appear in many application domains for timing and synchronization studies. The objective of the control problem is to minimize a cost function under constraints on states, inputs and outputs of such a system in a receding horizon fashion. In contrast to the pessimistic view of the robust approach on uncertainty, the stochastic approach interprets the constraints probabilistically, allowing for a sufficiently small violation probability level. In order to address the resulting nonconvex chance-constrained optimization problem, we present two ideas in this paper. First, we employ a scenario-based approach to approximate the problem solution, which optimizes the control inputs over a receding horizon, subject to the constraint satisfaction under a finite number of scenarios of the uncertain parameters. Second, we show that this approximate optimization problem is convex with respect to the decision variables and we provide a-priori probabilistic guarantees for the desired level of constraint fulfillment. The proposed scheme improves the results in the literature in two distinct directions: we do not require any assumption on the underlying probability distribution of the system parameters; and the scheme is applicable to high dimensional problems, which makes it suitable for real industrial applications. The proposed framework is demonstrated on a two-dimensional production system and it is also applied to a subset of the Dutch railway network in order to show its scalability and study its limitations.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC)
Stochastic optimization,Probabilistic-based design optimization,Linear system,Control theory,Computer science,Probability distribution,Artificial intelligence,Optimization problem,Constraint satisfaction,Mathematical optimization,Stochastic process,Stochastic programming,Machine learning
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1062-922X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vahab Rostampour100.34
Dieky Adzkiya2358.29
Sadegh Esmaeil Zadeh Soudjani317523.12
Hans Hellendoorn41673220.44
Tamás Keviczky547544.62