Ph.D. Seminar Notice: Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Systems

Tuesday, July 2, 2024 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Candidate: Ruiqi Li

Title: Data-Driven Predictive Control for Stochastic Systems

Date: July 2, 2024

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: EIT 3145

Supervisor(s): Smith, Stephen L. - Simpson-Porco, John (Adjunct)

Abstract:

We propose a data-driven receding-horizon control method dealing with the chance-constrained output-tracking problem of unknown stochastic linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. The proposed method takes into account the statistics of the process noise, the measurement noise and the uncertain initial condition, following an analogous framework to Stochastic Model Predictive Control (SMPC), but does not rely on the use of a parametric system model. As such, our receding-horizon algorithm produces a sequence of closed-loop control policies for predicted time steps, as opposed to a sequence of open-loop control actions. Under certain conditions, we establish that our proposed data-driven control method produces identical control inputs as that produced by the associated model-based SMPC. Simulation results on a grid-connected power converter are provided to illustrate the performance benefits of our methodology.