Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Robust Control of Discrete-Time Uncertain Linear Systems

Abstract

In this paper, an off-policy reinforcement learning method is developed for the robust stabilizing controller design of discrete-time uncertain linear systems. The proposed robust control design consists of two steps. First, the robust control problem is transformed to an optimal control problem. Second, the off-policy RL method is used to design the optimal control policy which guarantees the robust stability of the original system with uncertainty. The condition for the equivalence between the robust control problem and the optimal control problem is discussed. The off-policy does not require any knowledge of the system knowledge and efficiently utilize the data collected from on-line to improve the performance of approximate optimal control policy in each iteration successively. Finally, a simulation example is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the presented algorithm for the robust control problem of discrete-time linear system with uncertainty.

Meeting Name

36th Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2017 (2017: Jul. 26-28, Dalian, China)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Second Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Center/Lab(s)

Intelligent Systems Center

Second Research Center/Lab

Center for High Performance Computing Research

Sponsor(s)

China Scholarship Council
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Mary K. Finley Missouri Endowment
Missouri University of Science and Technology. Intelligent Systems Center

Comments

This work was supported in part by the Mary K. Finley Missouri Endowment, the Missouri S&T Intelligent Systems Center, the National Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant No. 61333002) and the China Scholarship Council (CSC No. 201406460057).

Keywords and Phrases

Model-Free; Off-Policy Trinforcement Learning; Optimal Control; Robust Control; System Uncertainty

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-988156393-4

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1934-1768

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2017

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