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On the Optimal Control of Relaxation Systems

Optimization and Control 2019-09-17 v1

Abstract

The relaxation systems are an important subclass of the passive systems that arise naturally in applications. We exploit the fact that they have highly structured state-space realisations to derive analytical solutions to some simple H-infinity type optimal control problems. The resulting controllers are also relaxation systems, and often sparse. This makes them ideal candidates for applications in large-scale problems, which we demonstrate by designing simple, sparse, electrical circuits to optimally control large inductive networks and to solve linear regression problems.

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@article{arxiv.1909.07219,
  title  = {On the Optimal Control of Relaxation Systems},
  author = {Richard Pates and Carolina Bergeling and Anders Rantzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.07219},
  year   = {2019}
}