Data/moment-driven approaches for fast predictive control of collective dynamics
This addresses the problem of real-time control for collective dynamics, but it is incremental as it reviews and adapts existing approaches.
The paper tackles the challenge of feedback control for large-scale particle systems by proposing two alternatives to traditional model predictive control to avoid high-dimensional online optimization, enabling fast real-time synthesis.
Feedback control synthesis for large-scale particle systems is reviewed in the framework of model predictive control (MPC). The high-dimensional character of collective dynamics hampers the performance of traditional MPC algorithms based on fast online dynamic optimization at every time step. Two alternatives to MPC are proposed. First, the use of supervised learning techniques for the offline approximation of optimal feedback laws is discussed. Then, a procedure based on sequential linearization of the dynamics based on macroscopic quantities of the particle ensemble is reviewed. Both approaches circumvent the online solution of optimal control problems enabling fast, real-time, feedback synthesis for large-scale particle systems. Numerical experiments assess the performance of the proposed algorithms.