Discrete-time certainty equivalence output feedback: allowing discontinuous control laws including those from model predictive control

  • Authors:

  • Michael J. Messina;Sezai E. Tuna;Andrew R. Teel

  • Affiliations:

  • Center for Control Engineering and Computation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA;Center for Control Engineering and Computation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA;Center for Control Engineering and Computation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560, USA

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present certainty equivalence output feedback results for discrete-time nonlinear systems that employ possibly discontinuous control laws in the feedback loop. Coupling assumptions of nominal robustness with uniform observability or detectability assumptions, we assert nominally robust stability for output feedback closed loops. We further show that model predictive control (MPC) can be used to generate a feedback control law that is robustly globally asymptotically stabilizing when used in a certainty equivalence output feedback closed loop. Allowing for discontinuous feedback control laws is important for systems employing MPC, since the method can, and sometimes necessarily does, result in discontinuous control laws.