89 research outputs found
On a class of optimization-based robust estimators
We consider in this paper the problem of estimating a parameter matrix from
observations which are affected by two types of noise components: (i) a sparse
noise sequence which, whenever nonzero can have arbitrarily large amplitude
(ii) and a dense and bounded noise sequence of "moderate" amount. This is
termed a robust regression problem. To tackle it, a quite general
optimization-based framework is proposed and analyzed. When only the sparse
noise is present, a sufficient bound is derived on the number of nonzero
elements in the sparse noise sequence that can be accommodated by the estimator
while still returning the true parameter matrix. While almost all the
restricted isometry-based bounds from the literature are not verifiable, our
bound can be easily computed through solving a convex optimization problem.
Moreover, empirical evidence tends to suggest that it is generally tight. If in
addition to the sparse noise sequence, the training data are affected by a
bounded dense noise, we derive an upper bound on the estimation error.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Contro
Robustness analysis of a Maximum Correntropy framework for linear regression
In this paper we formulate a solution of the robust linear regression problem
in a general framework of correntropy maximization. Our formulation yields a
unified class of estimators which includes the Gaussian and Laplacian
kernel-based correntropy estimators as special cases. An analysis of the
robustness properties is then provided. The analysis includes a quantitative
characterization of the informativity degree of the regression which is
appropriate for studying the stability of the estimator. Using this tool, a
sufficient condition is expressed under which the parametric estimation error
is shown to be bounded. Explicit expression of the bound is given and
discussion on its numerical computation is supplied. For illustration purpose,
two special cases are numerically studied.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, To appear in Automatic
Analysis of A Nonsmooth Optimization Approach to Robust Estimation
In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying a linear map from
measurements which are subject to intermittent and arbitarily large errors.
This is a fundamental problem in many estimation-related applications such as
fault detection, state estimation in lossy networks, hybrid system
identification, robust estimation, etc. The problem is hard because it exhibits
some intrinsic combinatorial features. Therefore, obtaining an effective
solution necessitates relaxations that are both solvable at a reasonable cost
and effective in the sense that they can return the true parameter vector. The
current paper discusses a nonsmooth convex optimization approach and provides a
new analysis of its behavior. In particular, it is shown that under appropriate
conditions on the data, an exact estimate can be recovered from data corrupted
by a large (even infinite) number of gross errors.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figure
Optimal control of discrete-time switched linear systems via continuous parameterization
The paper presents a novel method for designing an optimal controller for
discrete-time switched linear systems. The problem is formulated as one of
computing the discrete mode sequence and the continuous input sequence that
jointly minimize a quadratic performance index. State-of-art methods for
solving such a control problem suffer in general from a high computational
requirement due to the fact that an exponential number of switching sequences
must be explored. The method of this paper addresses the challenge of the
switching law design by introducing auxiliary continuous input variables and
then solving a non-smooth block-sparsity inducing optimization problem.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; To appear in the Proceedings of IFAC
World Congress, 201
Adaptive output feedback control based on neural networks: application to flexible aircraft control
One of the major challenges in aeronautical flexible structures control is the uncertain for the non stationary feature of the systems. Transport aircrafts are of unceasingly growing size but are made from increasingly light materials so that their motion dynamics present some
flexible low frequency modes coupled to rigid modes. For reasons that range from fuel transfer to random flying conditions, the parameters of these planes may be subject to significative variations during a flight. A single control law that would be robust to so large levels of uncertainties is likely to be limited in performance. For that reason, we follow in this work an adaptive control approach. Given an existing closed-loop system where a basic controller controls the rigid body modes, the problem of interest consists in designing an adaptive controller that could deal with the flexible modes of the system in such a way that the performance of the first controller is not deteriorated even in the presence of parameter variations. To this purpose, we follow a similar strategy as in Hovakimyan (2002) where a reference model adaptive control method has been proposed. The basic model of the rigid modes is regarded as a reference model and a neural network based learning algorithm is used to compensate online for the effects of unmodelled dynamics and parameter variations. We then successfully apply this control policy to the control of an Airbus aircraft. This is a very high dimensional dynamical model (about 200 states) whose direct control is obviously hard. However, by applying the aforementioned adaptive control technique to it, some promising simulation results can be achieved
Data Informativity for the Identication of MISO FIR Systems with Filtered White Noise Excitation
For Prediction Error Identication, there are two main ingredients to get a consistent estimate: one of them is the data informativity with respect to (w.r.t.) the considered model structure. One common criterion used for the informativity is the positive deniteness of the input density spectral power (DSP) matrix at all frequencies. This criterion is not appropriate for multisine excitation but can be used for ltered white noise excitation for many identication problems. However, this criterion is not necessary and its application for some identication problems might not be possible. In this paper, we propose a necessary and sucient condition for the data informativity in the case of multiple-inputs single-output (MISO) nite impulse response (FIR) model structure in open-loop
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