Yu Jiang, W. Graves, Marco Giovanardi, Zack Anderson
{"title":"On XYZ-Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles with Active Suspension Systems","authors":"Yu Jiang, W. Graves, Marco Giovanardi, Zack Anderson","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156511","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the xyz-motion planning problem for autonomous vehicles equipped with active suspension systems. A generic nonlinear optimization problem based on a 3D quarter car model is formulated, where vertical motion planning and the knowledge of road surface data are taken into consideration for planning the motion of the vehicle body in 3D space. A novel z-motion planning methodology is proposed and integrated with a sampling-based xyz-motion planning framework. Finally, simulated driving scenarios are presented to illustrate the advantages of using the proposed planning framework.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117117403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Task and Motion Planning for Process-aware Source Seeking","authors":"Yingke Li, Mengxue Hou, Enlu Zhou, Fumin Zhang","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156291","url":null,"abstract":"The process-aware source seeking (PASS) problem in flow fields aims to find an informative trajectory to reach an unknown source location while taking the energy consumption in the flow fields into consideration. Taking advantage of the existing methods on flow field partition, this paper formulates this problem as a task and motion planning (TAMP) problem and proposes a bi-level hierarchical planning framework to decouple the planning of inter-region transition and inner-region trajectory by introducing inter-region junctions. An integrated strategy is utilized to enable efficient upper-level planning by investigating the optimal solution of the lower-level planner. The proposed algorithm provides guaranteed convergence of the trajectory, and achieves automatic trade-off between exploration and exploitation, which has been validated by the simulation results.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123897989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index of Papers Published in the IEEE ACC 2023","authors":"","doi":"10.23919/acc55779.2023.10155829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/acc55779.2023.10155829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123929385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the complexity of linear systems: an approach via rate distortion theory and emulating systems","authors":"Eric D. B. Wendel, J. Baillieul, Joseph Hollmann","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155927","url":null,"abstract":"We define the complexity of a continuous-time linear system to be the minimum number of bits required to describe its forward increments to a desired level of fidelity, and compute this quantity using the rate distortion function of a Gaussian source of uncertainty in those increments. The complexity of a linear system has relevance in control-communications contexts requiring local and dynamic decision-making based on sampled data representations. We relate this notion of complexity to the design of attention-varying controllers, and demonstrate a novel methodology for constructing source codes via the endpoint maps of so-called emulating systems, with potential for non-parametric, data-based simulation and analysis of unknown dynamical systems.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123953936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lyapunov-based Current-Profile Feedback Control in Tokamaks with Nonsymmetric Individual Actuator Saturation∗","authors":"S. Paruchuri, A. Pajares, E. Schuster","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156029","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced tokamak scenarios can achieve optimal tokamak operation by shaping the plasma internal profiles through the use of noninductive heating and current sources. As a result of the dynamic complexities, active control of the power of each noninductive heating and current source, a non-negative value, may be necessary to achieve the desired tokamak performance. However, due to the inherent physical limitations, arbitrary power prescription by the controller may saturate the heating and current drives. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop a class of active control algorithms that account for the saturation limits of these actuators. A Lyapunov-based nonlinear feedback control algorithm that intrinsically accounts for saturation limits is proposed in this work to regulate the spatial distribution of the toroidal current density in the tokamak. The controller does not rely on constrained optimization techniques, which can be computationally expensive for real-time implementation. Furthermore, the controller can handle nonsymmetric saturation limits, i.e., the absolute values of the upper and lower saturation limits do not have to be equal. The effectiveness of the control algorithm is demonstrated for a DIII-D tokamak scenario in nonlinear simulations.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124001374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chance-Constrained Control with Imperfect Perception Modules","authors":"Beomjun Kim, Heejin Ahn","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155868","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous systems are required to operate in different environments, but recognizing the current environment is often challenging. For example, an autonomous vehicle should stop or obey a speed limit according to a traffic sign, but state-of-the-art perception modules (e.g., neural networks) do not guarantee the correctness of their reading of the traffic sign. Considering such uncertain outputs of a perception module, which in effect determines modes, we propose a chance-constrained control formulation that with high probability guarantees the satisfaction of a set of constraints associated with the possible modes. To do this, we present a method based on the Bayes rule and sampling to calculate the probability of each mode. We prove that our approach can ensure satisfying constraints of novel situations, which have not been used during training of the perception module. Also, to account for the error due to limited data, we present a robust formulation that guarantees constraint satisfaction with high confidence. In an autonomous vehicle example, we train a neural network that classifies traffic signs and show that given each output of the neural network, our motion planning approach guarantees the constraint satisfaction with high probability.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124047107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal Comfort Control on Sustainable Building via Data-Driven Robust Model Predictive Control","authors":"Wei-Han Chen, Shiyu Yang, F. You","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155818","url":null,"abstract":"While implementing renewable energy systems and model predictive control (MPC) could reduce non-renewable energy consumption, one challenge to building climate control using MPC is the weather forecast uncertainty. In this work, we propose a data-driven robust model predictive control (DDRMPC) framework to address climate control of a sustainable building with renewable hybrid energy systems under weather forecast uncertainty. The control and energy system configurations include heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, geothermal heat pump, photovoltaic panel, and electricity storage battery. Historical weather forecast and measurement data are gathered from the weather station to identify the forecast errors and for the use of uncertainty set construction. The data-driven uncertainty sets are constructed with multiple machine learning techniques, including principal component analysis with kernel density estimation, K-means clustering coupled with PCA and KDE, density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise, and the Dirichlet process mixture model. Lastly, a data-driven robust optimization problem is developed to obtain the optimal control inputs for a building with renewable energy systems. A case study on controlling a building with renewable energy systems located on the Cornell University campus is used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed DDRMPC framework.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125778739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yujie Yang, Yuxuan Jiang, Jianyu Chen, S. Li, Ziqing Gu, Yuming Yin, Qian Zhang, Kai Yu
{"title":"Belief State Actor-Critic Algorithm from Separation Principle for POMDP","authors":"Yujie Yang, Yuxuan Jiang, Jianyu Chen, S. Li, Ziqing Gu, Yuming Yin, Qian Zhang, Kai Yu","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10155792","url":null,"abstract":"Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is a general framework for decision making and control under uncertainty. A large class of POMDP algorithms follows a two-step approach, in which the first step is to estimate the belief state, and the second step is to solve for the optimal policy taking the belief state as input. The optimality guarantee of their combination relies on the so-called separation principle. In this paper, we propose a new path to prove the separation principle for infinite horizon general POMDP problems under both discounted cost and average cost. We use a nominal horizon to split a virtual objective function into two parts and prove that it converges to the optimal state-value function. Based on the separation principle, we design a two-step POMDP algorithm called Belief State Actor-Critic (BSAC), which first estimates the belief state and then takes it as input to solve for the optimal policy. The belief state is learned using variational inference, and the policy is learned through model-based reinforcement learning. We test our algorithm in a partially observable multi-lane autonomous driving task. Results show that our algorithm achieves lower costs than the baselines and learns safe, efficient, and smooth driving behaviors.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126004308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal control of a bioeconomic model applied to the recovery of household waste*","authors":"Othman Cherkaoui Dekkaki, W. Djema","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156431","url":null,"abstract":"An improved mathematical model describing the process of generating energy from household waste treatment is proposed and analyzed. It is a three-dimensional nonlinear system that illustrates the process of transforming household waste stored in a landfill into energy that flows to a user’s network. More precisely, the state of the system describes at a broad scale a process of generating energy E by treating a quota of a waste stock x through K-valorization units that may also consume a part of the produced energy for their operation. Our main objective is to maximize the energy produced and transmitted to the user’s network. In particular, we investigate the issue of determining an optimal investing strategy that monitors the deployment of treatment plants. Using Pontryagin’s maximum principle (PMP), we characterize, over a fixed time-frame [0, T], the optimal investment that maximizes the produced energy while limiting the overall production costs. In addition, the efficiency of the suggested strategy is validated and illustrated throughout this work using a direct optimization method.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"374 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124674807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piecewise Quantization-Dependent Approach to Quantized Stabilization of Piecewise-Affine Systems*","authors":"Zepeng Ning, Yiming Cheng, Zhaojian Li, Xunyuan Yin","doi":"10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the stability and stabilization problems for discrete-time piecewise-affine (PWA) systems with single input-and-state quantization. The PWA controller is considered to be dependent on the controlled PWA system modes; the adopted logarithmic quantizers are in a piecewise form, which is synchronized with the operating mode of the PWA system. A piecewise Lyapunov function is constructed, which has dependence on the sector-bounded uncertainties of both the control input and the state-feedback signal. Afterward, stability and stabilization criteria are derived based on the constructed Lyapunov function. The proposed quantized control strategy is illustrated via an application to a simulated temperature control problem.","PeriodicalId":397401,"journal":{"name":"2023 American Control Conference (ACC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129387599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}