Title
Scalable System Level Synthesis For Virtually Localizable Systems
Abstract
In previous work, we developed the system level approach to controller synthesis, and showed that under suitable assumptions, this framework allowed for the synthesis of localized controllers. We further showed that such localized controllers enjoy O(1) synthesis and implementation complexity relative to the dimension of the global system, making them particularly well suited for the control of large-scale cyber-physical systems. However, the assumptions under which a system is localizable are stringent: roughly, a system is localizable if the controller has the necessary actuation, sensing and communication resources to "get out ahead" of the propagation of a disturbance and neutralize it, thus containing its effect to a localized spatiotemporal region. In this paper, we relax the assumption of exact localizability, and develop a controller synthesis methodology that is applicable to arbitrary systems that are in an appropriate sense "easy to control." We focus on the state-feedback setting and develop a simple necessary and sufficient condition for robust stability using the system level approach. We then leverage this condition, along with the introduction of virtual actuation, communication and system responses into the synthesis process, to design stabilizing controllers that have (i) O(1) synthesis and implementation complexity and (ii) guaranteed performance bounds. We end with a power-inspired example demonstrating the usefulness of these techniques, wherein we synthesize a near globally optimal controller for a system that is neither localizable nor quadratically invariant.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
2017 IEEE 56TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC)
Quadratic growth,Control theory,Optimal control,Computer science,Control theory,Global system,Robustness (computer science),Scalable system,Invariant (mathematics),System level
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1546
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolai Matni110017.81
Yuh Shyang Wang2445.62
James Anderson3616.32