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Poster
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Workshop: Safe and Robust Control of Uncertain Systems

Safe Learning of Linear Time-Invariant Systems

Farhad Farokhi · Alex Leong · Mohammad Zamani · Iman Shames


Abstract:

We consider safety in simultaneous learning and control of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. We provide rigorous confidence bounds on the learned model of the system based on the number of utilized state measurements. These bounds are used to modify control inputs to the system via an optimization problem with potentially time-varying safety constraints. We prove that the state can only exit the safe set with small probability, provided a feasible solution to the safety-constrained optimization exists. This optimization problem is then reformulated in a more computationally-friendly format by tightening the safety constraints to account for model uncertainty during learning. The tightening decreases as the confidence in the learned model improves. We finally prove that, under persistence of excitation, the tightening becomes negligible as more measurements are gathered.