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Discrete-Valued Control by Sum-of-Absolute-Values Optimization

Systems and Control 2015-09-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new design method of discrete-valued control for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems based on sum-of-absolute-values (SOAV) optimization. We first formulate the discrete-valued control design as a finite-horizon SOAV optimal control, which is an extended version of L1 optimal control. We then give simple conditions that guarantee the existence, discreteness, and uniqueness of the SOAV optimal control. Also, we give the continuity property of the value function, by which we prove the stability of infinite-horizon model predictive SOAV control systems. We provide a fast algorithm for the SOAV optimization based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), which has an important advantage in real-time control computation. A simulation result shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.07968,
  title  = {Discrete-Valued Control by Sum-of-Absolute-Values Optimization},
  author = {Takuya Ikeda and Masaaki Nagahara and Shunsuke Ono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.07968},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; 11 pages with 2 figures

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