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Stability Optimization of Positive Semi-Markov Jump Linear Systems via Convex Optimization
In this paper, we study the problem of optimizing the stability of positive
semi-Markov jump linear systems. We specifically consider the problem of tuning
the coefficients of the system matrices for maximizing the exponential decay
rate of the system under a budget-constraint. By using a result from the matrix
theory on the log-log convexity of the spectral radius of nonnegative matrices,
we show that the stability optimization problem reduces to a convex
optimization problem under certain regularity conditions on the system matrices
and the cost function. We illustrate the validity and effectiveness of the
proposed results by using an example from the population biology
On control of discrete-time state-dependent jump linear systems with probabilistic constraints: A receding horizon approach
In this article, we consider a receding horizon control of discrete-time
state-dependent jump linear systems, particular kind of stochastic switching
systems, subject to possibly unbounded random disturbances and probabilistic
state constraints. Due to a nature of the dynamical system and the constraints,
we consider a one-step receding horizon. Using inverse cumulative distribution
function, we convert the probabilistic state constraints to deterministic
constraints, and obtain a tractable deterministic receding horizon control
problem. We consider the receding control law to have a linear state-feedback
and an admissible offset term. We ensure mean square boundedness of the state
variable via solving linear matrix inequalities off-line, and solve the
receding horizon control problem on-line with control offset terms. We
illustrate the overall approach applied on a macroeconomic system
Efficient Method for Computing Lower Bounds on the -radius of Switched Linear Systems
This paper proposes lower bounds on a quantity called -norm joint
spectral radius, or in short, -radius, of a finite set of matrices. Despite
its wide range of applications to, for example, stability analysis of switched
linear systems and the equilibrium analysis of switched linear economical
models, algorithms for computing the -radius are only available in a very
limited number of particular cases. The proposed lower bounds are given as the
spectral radius of an average of the given matrices weighted via Kronecker
products and do not place any requirements on the set of matrices. We show that
the proposed lower bounds theoretically extend and also can practically improve
the existing lower bounds. A Markovian extension of the proposed lower bounds
is also presented
Disease spread over randomly switched large-scale networks
In this paper we study disease spread over a randomly switched network, which
is modeled by a stochastic switched differential equation based on the so
called -intertwined model for disease spread over static networks. Assuming
that all the edges of the network are independently switched, we present
sufficient conditions for the convergence of infection probability to zero.
Though the stability theory for switched linear systems can naively derive a
necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence, the condition cannot be
used for large-scale networks because, for a network with agents, it
requires computing the maximum real eigenvalue of a matrix of size exponential
in . On the other hand, our conditions that are based also on the spectral
theory of random matrices can be checked by computing the maximum real
eigenvalue of a matrix of size exactly
Bayesian nonparametric multivariate convex regression
In many applications, such as economics, operations research and
reinforcement learning, one often needs to estimate a multivariate regression
function f subject to a convexity constraint. For example, in sequential
decision processes the value of a state under optimal subsequent decisions may
be known to be convex or concave. We propose a new Bayesian nonparametric
multivariate approach based on characterizing the unknown regression function
as the max of a random collection of unknown hyperplanes. This specification
induces a prior with large support in a Kullback-Leibler sense on the space of
convex functions, while also leading to strong posterior consistency. Although
we assume that f is defined over R^p, we show that this model has a convergence
rate of log(n)^{-1} n^{-1/(d+2)} under the empirical L2 norm when f actually
maps a d dimensional linear subspace to R. We design an efficient reversible
jump MCMC algorithm for posterior computation and demonstrate the methods
through application to value function approximation
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