Paper
Online Learning for Supervisory Switching Control
Authors
Haoyuan Sun, Ali Jadbabaie
Abstract
We study supervisory switching control for partially-observed linear dynamical systems. The objective is to identify and deploy the best controller for the unknown system by periodically selecting among a collection of $N$ candidate controllers, some of which may destabilize the underlying system. While classical estimator-based supervisory control guarantees asymptotic stability, it lacks quantitative finite-time performance bounds. Conversely, current non-asymptotic methods in both online learning and system identification require restrictive assumptions that are incompatible in a control setting, such as system stability, which preclude testing potentially unstable controllers. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel, non-asymptotic analysis of supervisory control that adapts multi-armed bandit algorithms to address these control-theoretic challenges. Our data-driven algorithm evaluates candidate controllers via scoring criteria that leverage system observability to isolate the effects of historical states, enabling both detection of destabilizing controllers and accurate system identification. We present two algorithmic variants with dimension-free, finite-time guarantees, where each identifies the most suitable controller in $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$ steps, while simultaneously achieving finite $L_2$-gain with respect to system disturbances.
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