English

Robust targeted exploration for systems with non-stochastic disturbances

Optimization and Control 2026-03-12 v3 Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

We propose a novel targeted exploration strategy designed specifically for uncertain linear time-invariant systems with energy-bounded disturbances, i.e., without any assumptions on the distribution of the disturbances. We use classical results characterising the set of non-falsified parameters consistent with energy-bounded disturbances. We derive a semidefinite program which computes an exploration strategy that guarantees a desired accuracy of the parameter estimate. This design is based on sufficient conditions on the spectral content of the exploration data that robustly account for initial parametric uncertainty. Finally, we highlight the applicability of the exploration strategy through a numerical example involving a nonlinear system.

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@article{arxiv.2412.20426,
  title  = {Robust targeted exploration for systems with non-stochastic disturbances},
  author = {Janani Venkatasubramanian and Johannes Köhler and Mark Cannon and Frank Allgöwer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20426},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Submitted to Automatica

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