Title
Stabilizing a system with an unbounded random gain using only a finite number of bits.
Abstract
We study the stabilization of an unpredictable linear control system where the controller must act based on a rate-limited observation of the state. More precisely, we consider the system $X_{n+1} = A_n X_n + W_n - U_n$, where the $A_n$u0027s are drawn independently at random at each time $n$ from a known distribution with unbounded support, and where the controller receives at most $R$ bits about the system state at each time from an encoder. We provide a time-varying achievable strategy to stabilize the system in a second-moment sense with fixed, finite $R$. While our previous result provided a strategy to stabilize this system using a variable-rate code, this work provides an achievable strategy using a fixed-rate code. The strategy we employ to achieve this is time-varying and takes different actions depending on the value of the state. It proceeds in two modes: a normal mode (or zoom-in), where the realization of $A_n$ is typical, and an emergency mode (or zoom-out), where the realization of $A_n$ is exceptionally large.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Systems and Control
Topology,Control theory,Finite set,Linear control systems,Control theory,Encoder,Normal mode,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1805.05535
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kostina Victoria122130.70
Yuval Peres252353.68
Gireeja Ranade38814.45
Mark Sellke4142.11