Relatively optimal control and its linear implementation

Franco Blanchini

doi:10.1109/TAC.2003.820070

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Relatively optimal control and its linear implementation

2003-12-01

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Franco Blanchini *

Felice Andrea Pellegrino

DOI：10.1109/TAC.2003.820070

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Motivated by the fact that determining a feedback solution for the optimal control problem under constraints is a hard task we introduce the concept of relative optimality, roughly optimality for a specific (nominal) plant initial condition. We consider a generic discrete-time finite-horizon constrained optimal control problem for linear systems, and we seek for a state feedback (possibly dynamic) controller. As a fundamental requirement, we do not admit preactions or controller-state initialization based on the plant initial state and we assume our controller to be time-invariant. In particular, we do not consider controllers simply achieved by the feedforward and tracking of the optimal trajectory. A relatively optimal control is a stabilizing controller such that, if initialized at its zero state, produces the optimal (constrained) trajectory for the nominal initial condition of the plant. We show that one of such controllers is linear, dead-beat, and its order is equal to the length of the horizon minus the plant order, thus, of complexity which is known a priori. Some additional features such as the assignment of the compensator poles to achieve strong stabilization are proposed. We show that, by means of the proposed approach, we can face several problems such as optimal point-to-point operations, optimal impulse response and optimal tracking.

Keywords:

constrained control

dead-beat control

linear control

optimal control

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