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An Improved Constraint-Tightening Approach for Stochastic MPC
The problem of achieving a good trade-off in Stochastic Model Predictive
Control between the competing goals of improving the average performance and
reducing conservativeness, while still guaranteeing recursive feasibility and
low computational complexity, is addressed. We propose a novel, less
restrictive scheme which is based on considering stability and recursive
feasibility separately. Through an explicit first step constraint we guarantee
recursive feasibility. In particular we guarantee the existence of a feasible
input trajectory at each time instant, but we only require that the input
sequence computed at time remains feasible at time for most
disturbances but not necessarily for all, which suffices for stability. To
overcome the computational complexity of probabilistic constraints, we propose
an offline constraint-tightening procedure, which can be efficiently solved via
a sampling approach to the desired accuracy. The online computational
complexity of the resulting Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm is similar
to that of a nominal MPC with terminal region. A numerical example, which
provides a comparison with classical, recursively feasible Stochastic MPC and
Robust MPC, shows the efficacy of the proposed approach.Comment: Paper has been submitted to ACC 201
Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Discounted Probabilistic Constraints
This paper considers linear discrete-time systems with additive disturbances,
and designs a Model Predictive Control (MPC) law to minimise a quadratic cost
function subject to a chance constraint. The chance constraint is defined as a
discounted sum of violation probabilities on an infinite horizon. By penalising
violation probabilities close to the initial time and ignoring violation
probabilities in the far future, this form of constraint enables the
feasibility of the online optimisation to be guaranteed without an assumption
of boundedness of the disturbance. A computationally convenient MPC
optimisation problem is formulated using Chebyshev's inequality and we
introduce an online constraint-tightening technique to ensure recursive
feasibility based on knowledge of a suboptimal solution. The closed loop system
is guaranteed to satisfy the chance constraint and a quadratic stability
condition.Comment: 6 pages, Conference Proceeding
On the convergence of stochastic MPC to terminal modes of operation
The stability of stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) subject to
additive disturbances is often demonstrated in the literature by constructing
Lyapunov-like inequalities that guarantee closed-loop performance bounds and
boundedness of the state, but convergence to a terminal control law is
typically not shown. In this work we use results on general state space Markov
chains to find conditions that guarantee convergence of disturbed nonlinear
systems to terminal modes of operation, so that they converge in probability to
a priori known terminal linear feedback laws and achieve time-average
performance equal to that of the terminal control law. We discuss implications
for the convergence of control laws in stochastic MPC formulations, in
particular we prove convergence for two formulations of stochastic MPC
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