Robust learning-based control via bootstrapped multiplicative noise

B Gravell, T Summers - Learning for Dynamics and Control, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning for Dynamics and Control, 2020proceedings.mlr.press
Despite decades of research and recent progress in adaptive control and reinforcement
learning, there remains a fundamental lack of understanding in designing controllers that
provide robustness to inherent non-asymptotic uncertainties arising from models estimated
with finite, noisy data. We propose a robust adaptive control algorithm that explicitly
incorporates such non-asymptotic uncertainties into the control design. The algorithm has
three components:(1) a least-squares nominal model estimator;(2) a bootstrap resampling …
Abstract
Despite decades of research and recent progress in adaptive control and reinforcement learning, there remains a fundamental lack of understanding in designing controllers that provide robustness to inherent non-asymptotic uncertainties arising from models estimated with finite, noisy data. We propose a robust adaptive control algorithm that explicitly incorporates such non-asymptotic uncertainties into the control design. The algorithm has three components:(1) a least-squares nominal model estimator;(2) a bootstrap resampling method that quantifies non-asymptotic variance of the nominal model estimate; and (3) a non-conventional robust control design method using an optimal linear quadratic regulator (LQR) with multiplicative noise. A key advantage of the proposed approach is that the system identification and robust control design procedures both use stochastic uncertainty representations, so that the actual inherent statistical estimation uncertainty directly aligns with the uncertainty the robust controller is being designed against. We show through numerical experiments that the proposed robust adaptive controller can significantly outperform the certainty equivalent controller on both expected regret and measures of regret risk.
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