2017/11/20 by Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh, Ambuj Tewari, Faradonbeh, Mohamad Kazem Shirani +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · Computer Science · #Control Systems and Identification #Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms #Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.07230
The main challenge for adaptive regulation of linear-quadratic systems is the trade-off between identification and control. An adaptive policy needs to address both the estimation of unknown dynamics parameters (exploration), as well as the regulation of the underlying system (exploitation). To this end, optimism-based methods which bias the identification in favor of optimistic approximations of the true parameter are employed in the literature. A number of asymptotic results have been established, but their finite time counterparts are few, with important restrictions. This study establishes results for the worst-case regret of optimism-based adaptive policies. The presented high probability upper bounds are optimal up to logarithmic factors. The non-asymptotic analysis of this work requires very mild assumptions; (i) stabilizability of the system's dynamics, and (ii) limiting the degree of heaviness of the noise distribution. To establish such bounds, certain novel techniques are developed to comprehensively address the probabilistic behavior of dependent random matrices with heavy-tailed distributions.