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<chapter style="counter-reset: chapter 13"><h1>Robust and
  Stochastic Control</h1>

  <p>My goal of presenting a relatively consumable survey of a few of the main
  ideas is perhaps more important in this chapter than any other.  It's been
  said that "robust control is encrypted" (as in you need to know the secret
  code to get in). The culture in the robust control community has been to
  leverage high-powered mathematics, sometimes at the cost of offering more
  simple explanations.  This is unfortunate, I think, because robotics and
  machine learning would benefit from a richer connection to these tools, and
  are perhaps destined to reinvent many of them.</p>
  
  <p>The classic reference for robust control is <elib>Zhou97</elib>.
  <elib>Petersen00</elib> has a treatment that does more of its development in
  the time-domain and via Riccati equations; I will do the same here.</p>

  <section><h1>Stochastic models</h1>
  
    <p>So far in the notes, we have concerned ourselves primarily with known,
    deterministic systems.  In the <a href="stochastic.html">stochastic
    systems</a> chapter, we started our study of nonlinear dynamics of
    stochastic systems, which can be beautiful!  In this chapter we will begin
    to consider computational tools for analysis and control of those systems.
    Stochasticity can come in many forms... we may not know the governing
    equations (e.g. the coefficient of friction in the joints), our robot may
    be <a href="https://youtu.be/cNZPRsrwumQ?t=32">walking on unknown terrain,
    subject to unknown disturbances</a>, or even be picking up unknown objects.
    There are a number of mathematical frameworks for considering this
    uncertainty; for our purposes this chapter will generalizing our thinking
    to equations of the form: $$\dot\bx = {\bf f}(\bx, \bu, \bw, t) \qquad
    \text{or} \qquad \bx[n+1] = {\bf f}(\bx[n], \bu[n], \bw[n], n),$$ where
    $\bw$ is a new <i>random</i> input signal to the equations capturing all of
    this potential variability. Although it is certainly possible to work in
    continuous time, and treat $\bw(t)$ as a continuous-time random signal
    (c.f. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_process">Wiener
    process</a>), the notation and intuition is a bit simpler when we work with
    $\bw[n]$ as a discrete-time random signal. For this reason, we'll devote
    our attention in this chapter to the discrete-time systems.</p>

    <p>In order to simulate equations of this form, or to design controllers
    against them, we need to define the random process that generates $\bw[n]$.
    It is typical to assume the values $\bw[n]$ are independent and identically
    distributed (i.i.d.), meaning that $\bw[i]$ and $\bw[j]$ are uncorrelated
    when $i \neq j$.  As a result, we typically define our distribution via a
    probability density $\bw[n] \sim p_\bw(\bw)$<sidenote>The notation $\bw[n]
    \sim p_\bw(\bw)$ denotes that $\bw[n]$ is "drawn from" the distribution
    $p_\bw(\bx).$</sidenote>.  This is not as limiting as it may sound... if we
    wish to treat temporally-correlated noise (e.g. "colored noise") the format
    of our equations is rich enough to support this by adding additional state
    variables; we'll give an example below of a "whitening filter" for modeling
    wind gusts.  The other source of randomness that we will now consider in
    the equations is randomness in the initial conditions; we will similarly
    define a probability density $\bx[0] \sim p_0(\bx).$</p>
      
    <p>This modeling framework is rich enough for us to convey the key ideas;
    but it is not quite sufficient for all of the systems I am interested in.
    In <drake></drake> we go to additional lengths to support more general
    cases of <a
    href="https://drake.mit.edu/doxygen_cxx/group__stochastic__systems.html">stochastic
    systems</a>.  This includes modeling system parameters that are drawn from
    random each time the model is initialized, but are fixed over the duration
    of a simulation; it is possible but inefficient to model these as
    additional state variables that have no dynamics.  In other problems, even
    the <i>dimension of the state vector</i> may change in different
    realizations of the problem!  Consider, for instance, the case of a robot
    manipulating random numbers of dishes in a sink. I do not know many control
    formulations that handle this type of randomness well, and I consider this
    a top priority to think more about!  (We'll begin to address it in the <a
    href="output_feedback.html">output feedback chapter</a>.)</p>

  </section>

  <section><h1>Costs and constraints for stochastic systems</h1>
  
    <p>Given a stochastic model, what sort of cost function should we write in
    order to capture the desired aspect of performance?  There are a number of
    natural choices, which provide nice trade-offs between capturing the
    desired phenomena and computational tractability.</p>

    <todo>Airplane flying through the canyon figure?</todo>

    <p>Remember that $\bx[n]$ is now a random variable, so we want to write our
    cost and constraints using the distribution described e.g. $p_n(\bx)$.
    Broadly speaking, one might specify a cost in a handful of ways:</p>
    <ul>
      <li><b>Average cost</b>, $E[ \sum_n \ell(\bx[n], \bu[n]) ]$, or some
      time-averaged/discounted variant.  This is by far the most popular choice
      (especially in reinforcement learning), because it preserves the dynamic
      programming recursion for additive cost.</li>
      <li><b>Worst-case cost</b>, e.g. $\min_{\bu[\cdot]}\max_{\bx[0], {\bf
      w}[\cdot]} \sum_n \ell(\bx[n], \bu[n]).$ When we are able to upper-bound
      this cost and push down on that bound, then this is sometimes call
      <i>guaranteed cost control</i>.</li>
      <li><b>Relative worst-case</b> (aka "gain bounds"). Even for linear
      systems, bounding the absolute performance (for all $\bw$) leads to
      vacuous bounds; we can do much better by evaluating our performance
      metric relative to the magnitude of the disturbance input.</li>
      <li><b>Value at Risk (VaR)</b> and other related metrics from economics
      and operations research. $\text{VaR}(\alpha)$ is the maximum cost if we ignore
      the tails of the distribution (worse outcomes whose combined probability
      is at most $\alpha$). Note that VaR is easy to understand, but the related
      quantity "conditional value at risk" (CVaR) has superior mathematical
      properties, including connections to convex optimization
      <elib>Majumdar20</elib>.</li>
      <li><b>Regret</b> formulations try to minimize the difference between the
      designed controller and e.g. an optimal controller in some class that has
      access to privileged information, such as knowing a priori the
      disturbances $\bw[n].$ These formulations have become popular in the
      field of online optimization, and we are now starting to see "regret
      bounds" for control.
      </li>
    </ul>
    Similarly, we can think about how to generalize our deterministic
    constraints, e.g. $g(\bx) \le 0,$ into a the stochastic framework:
    <ul>
      <li><b>Chance constraints</b>, which take the form e.g. $\Pr[ g(\bx) >
      0 ] \le \alpha.$  For instance, we might like to guarantee that the
      probability that our airplane will crash into a tree is less that
      $\alpha$. Even for Gaussian uncertainty and polytopic constraints, these
      quantities can be hard to evaluate exactly; we often end up making
      approximations<elib>Scher22</elib> though there is some hope to provide
      rigorous bounds with Lyapunov-like arguments
      <elib>Steinhardt11a</elib>.</li>
      <li><b>Worst-case constraints</b>, which are the limit of the chance
      constraints when we take $\alpha \rightarrow 0$, tend to be much more
      amenable to computation, and connect directly to <a
      href="lyapunov.html#finite-time">reachability analysis</a>.</li>
    </ul>
    </p>

    <p>The term "robust control" is typically associated with the class of
    techniques that try to guarantee some <i>worst-case</i> performance or a
    worst-case bound (e.g. the gain bounds). The term "stochastic optimal
    control" or "stochastic control" is typically used as a catch-all for other
    methods that reason about stochasticity, without necessarily providing the
    strict robustness guarantees.</p>
    
    <p>It's important to realize that proponents of robust control are not
    necessarily pessimistic by nature; there is a philosophical stance about
    how difficult it can be to model the true distribution of randomness that a
    control system will face in the world. Worst-case analysis typically
    requires only a definition of the <i>set</i> of possible values that the
    random variable can take, and not a detailed <i>distribution</i> over those
    possible values.  It may be more practical to operationalize a concept like
    "this UAV will not crash so long as the peak wind gusts are below 35 mph"
    than requiring a detailed distribution over wind gust probabilities. But
    this simpler specification does come at some cost -- worst-case
    certificates are often pessimistic about the true performance of a system,
    and optimizing worst-case performance can lead to conservatism in the
    control design.</p>

  </section>

  <section><h1>Finite Markov Decision Processes</h1>

    <p>The Bellman equation.</p>

    <p>Discounted cost. Infinite-horizon average cost.</p>


      <p>We already had quick preview into stochastic optimal control in one of
      the cases where it is particularly easy: <a href="dp.html#mdp">finite
      Markov Decision Processes (MDPs)</a>.</p>

      <todo>Perhaps a example of something other than expected-value cost
      (worst case, e.g. Katie's metastability?)</todo>
    </subsection>

  </section>

  <section><h1>Linear optimal control</h1>
    <subsection><h1>Stochastic LQR</h1>

      <p>Let's consider a stochastic extension of the (discrete-time) LQR
      problem, where the system is now subjected to additive Gaussian white
      noise: \begin{gather*} \bx[n+1] = \bA\bx[n] + \bB\bu[n] + \bw[n],\\
      E\left[\bw[i]\right] = 0, \quad E\left[ \bw[i]\bw^T[j] \right] =
      \delta_{ij}{\bf \Sigma_w},\end{gather*} where $\delta_{ij}$ is one if
      $i=j$ and zero otherwise, and ${\bf \Sigma_w}$ is the covariance matrix
      of the disturbance, and we take the average cost: $$\min E\left[
      \sum_{n=0}^\infty \bx^T[n]\bQ\bx[n] + \bu^T[n] \bR\bu[n] \right], \qquad
      \bQ=\bQ^T \succeq 0, \bR = \bR^T \succ 0.$$ Note that we saw one version
      of this already when we discussed <a href="policy_search.html#lqr">policy
      search for LQR</a>.</p>

      <p>In the standard LQR derivation, we started by assuming a quadratic
      form for the cost-to-go function. Is that a suitable starting place for
      this stochastic version? We've already <a
      href="stochastic.html#linear_gaussian">studied the dynamics of a linear
      system subjected to Gaussian noise</a>, and learned that (at best) we
      should expect it to have a Gaussian stationary distribution. But that
      sounds problematic, no? If the system can not drive the system to zero
      and stay at zero in order to stop accruing cost, then won't the
      infinite-horizon cost be infinite (regardless of the controller)?</p>

      <p>Yes. The cost-to-go for this problem is infinite! But it turns out
      that it still has enough structure for us to work with. In particular,
      let's "guess" a cost-to-go function of the form: $$J_n(\bx) = \bx^T {\bf
      S}_n \bx + c_n,$$ where $c_n$ is a (scalar) constant. Now we can write
      the Bellman equation and do some algebra: \begin{align*} J_n(\bx) &=
      \min_\bu E_\bw\left[\bx^T \bQ \bx + \bu^T\bR\bu + [\bA\bx + \bB\bu +
      \bw]^T{\bf S}_{n+1}[\bA\bx + \bB\bu + \bw] + c_{n+1}\right] \\ &
      \begin{split}= \min_\bu &[\bx^T \bQ \bx + \bu^T\bR\bu + [\bA\bx +
      \bB\bu]^T{\bf S}_{n+1}[\bA\bx + \bB\bu] + c_{n+1} \\ &+ E_\bw\left[
      [\bA\bx + \bB\bu]^T{\bf S}_{n+1} \bw + \bw^T{\bf S}_{n+1}[\bA\bx +
      \bB\bu]\right] + E_\bw[\bw^T \bw]]\end{split} \\ &= \min_\bu [\bx^T \bQ
      \bx + \bu^T\bR\bu + [\bA\bx + \bB\bu]^T{\bf S}_{n+1}[\bA\bx + \bB\bu] +
      c_{n+1} + \tr({\bf \Sigma_w})]. \end{align*} The second line follows by
      simply pulling all of the deterministic terms outside of the expected
      value. The third line follows by observing that $\bx$ and $\bu$ are
      uncorrelated with $\bw,$ and $E[\bw] = 0$, so those cross terms are zero
      in expectation. Notice that, apart from the $c_{n+1}$ and ${\bf
      \Sigma_w}$, the remaining terms are exactly the same as the deterministic
      (discrete-time) LQR version.
      </p>

      <p>Remarkably, we can therefore achieve our dynamic programming recursion
      by using ${\bf S}_n$ as the solution of the discrete Riccati equation,
      and $c_n = c_{n+1} + \tr({\bf \Sigma_w}).$ As we take $n\rightarrow
      \infty$, ${\bf S}_n$ converges to the steady-state solution to the
      algebraic Riccati equation, and only $c_n$ grows to infinity.  As a
      result, even though the cost-to-go is infinite, the optimal control is
      still well defined: it is the same $\bu^* = -{\bf K}\bx$ that we obtain
      from the deterministic LQR problem!</p>

      <p>Take note of the fact that the true cost-to-go blows up to infinity.
      In reinforcement learning, for instance, it is common practice to avoid
      this blow-up by considering discounted-cost formulations,
      $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \gamma^n \ell(\bx[n], \bu[n]),\quad 0 < \gamma \le
      1,$$ or average-cost formulations, $$\lim_{N\rightarrow \infty}
      \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=0}^N \ell(\bx[n], \bu[n]).$$ These are satisfactory
      solutions to the problem, but please make sure to understand why they
      <i>must</i> be used.</p>

      <subsection><h1>Non-i.i.d. disturbances</h1>
    
        <p>The LQR derivation above assumed that the disturbances $\bw[n]$ were
        independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). But many of the
        disturbances we would like to model are not i.i.d..  For instance,
        consider a UAV flying in the wind. The wind is correlated over time,
        sometimes building up to gusts but even those gusts are relatively long
        compared to any the sampling rate of a control system.</p>

        <p>In fact, the standard models of wind are typically the output of a
        Gaussian i.i.d. random signal passed through a linear low-pass filter
        <elib sect="Ch. 9">Moore14b</elib>. This suggests a very natural
        approach to using LQR to stabilize a UAV in the wind: design the
        controller for the joint wind + UAV system. The state of this system
        contains both the state of the UAV and the state of the wind, so the
        resulting controller will have the form $$\bu = -{\bf K}
        \begin{bmatrix}\bx_{uav} \\ \bx_{wind} \end{bmatrix}.$$ In practice,
        this means that the controller will need to rely on an online estimator
        for the wind state in addition to the standard (UAV) state
        estimator.</p>

        <todo>definitely need a diagram here.</todo>
    
      </subsection>

      <example><h1>A quadrotor flying in the wind.</h1>
      
      </example>

    </subsection>

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    <subsection><h1>Common Lyapunov functions</h1>
      <p>We've already seen one nice example of robustness analysis for linear
      systems when we wrote a small optimization to find a <a
      href="lyapunov.html#common-lyapunov-linear">common Lyapunov function for
      uncertain linear systems</a>.  That example studied the dynamics
      $\bx[n+1] = \bA \bx[n]$ where the coefficients of $\bA$ were unknown but
      bounded.</p>  
    
      <p><a href="lyapunov.html#common-lyapunov">We also saw</a> that
      essentially the same technique can be used to certify stability against
      disturbances, e.g.: $$\bx[n+1] = \bA\bx[n] + \bw[n], \qquad \bw[n] \in
      \mathcal{W},$$ where $\mathcal{W}$ describes some bounded set of possible
      uncertainties.  In order to be compatible with convex optimization, we
      often choose to describe $\mathcal{W}$ as either an ellipsoid or as a
      convex polytope<elib>Boyd04a</elib>.  But let's remember a very important
      point: in this situation with additive disturbances, we can no-longer
      expect the system to converge stably to the origin.  Our example before
      used the common Lyapunov function only to certify the <i>invariance</i>
      of a region (if I start inside some region, then I'll never leave).</p>

    </subsection>
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    <subsection><h1>$L_2$ gain</h1>

      <p>Which cost function should we use to do worst-case design and analysis
      for linear systems? Certainly we can put an absolute bound on the
      magnitude of $\bw$, and perform reachability analysis (we will do it
      below). But knowing that the dependency on $\bw$ is linear allows us to
      do something more natural, which can lead to tighter bounds. In
      particular, we expect the magnitude of the deviation in $\bx$ compared to
      the undisturbed case to be proportional to the magnitude of the
      disturbance, $\bw$.  So the natural bound for a linear system is a
      <i>relative</i> bound on the magnitude of the response (from zero initial
      conditions) relative to the magnitude of the disturbance.
      </p>
        
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      <example><h1>Gain bounds for linear maps</h1>
        <p>Allow me to make the point with a much simpler problem.  Imagine I
        have just a affine function (not even a system): $x = aw$.  One could certainly make the statement: if $|w|\le 1$, then $|x| \le |a|$</p>
      </example>
      -->
      <p>
      Typically, this is done with the a scalar "$L_2$
      gain", $\gamma$, defined as: \begin{align*}\argmin_\gamma \quad
      \subjto& \quad \sup_{\bw(\cdot) \in \int \|\bw(t)\|^2 dt\le \infty}
      \frac{\int_0^T \| \bx(t) \|^2 dt}{\int_0^T \| \bw(t) \|^2dt} \le
      \gamma^2, \qquad \text{or} \\ \argmin_\gamma \quad \subjto&
      \sup_{\bw[\cdot] \in \sum_n \|\bw[n]\|^2 \le \infty} \frac{\sum_0^N
      \|\bx[n]\|^2}{\sum_0^N \| \bw[n] \|^2} \le \gamma^2.\end{align*} The
      name "$L_2$ gain" comes from the use of the $\ell_2$ norm on the
      signals $\bw(t)$ and $\bx(t)$, which is assumed only to be finite.</p>
    
      <p>More often, these gains are written not in terms of $\bx[n]$ directly,
      but in terms of some "performance output", $\bz[n]$.  For instance, if
      would would like to bound the cost of a quadratic regulator objective as
      a function of the magnitude of the disturbance, we can minimize $$
      \min_\gamma \quad \subjto \quad \sup_{\bw[n]} \frac{\sum_0^N
      \|\bz[n]\|^2}{\sum_0^N \| \bw[n] \|^2} \le \gamma^2, \qquad \bz[n] =
      \begin{bmatrix}\sqrt{\bQ} \bx[n] \\ \sqrt{\bR} \bu[n]\end{bmatrix}.$$
      This is a simple but important idea, and understanding it is the key to
      understanding the language around robust control.  In particular the
      $\mathcal{H}_2$ norm of a system (from input $\bw$ to output $\bz$) is
      the energy of the impulse response; when $\bz$ is chosen to represent the
      quadratic regulator cost as above, it corresponds to the expected LQR
      cost.  The $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ norm of a system (from $\bw$ to $\bz$) is
      the largest singular value of the transfer function; it corresponds to
      the $L_2$ gain.</p>
      
      <subsubsection id="dissipation"><h1>Dissipation inequalities</h1>
    
        <p>One of the mechanisms for certifying an $L_2$ gain for a system
        comes from a generalization of Lyapunov analysis to consider the contributions of system inputs via the so-called "dissipation
        inequalities".  Dissipation inequalities are a general tool, and
        $L_2$-gain analysis is only one application of them; for a broader
        treatment see <elib>Ebenbauer09</elib> or <elib part="Ch.
        2">Scherer15</elib>.</p>

        <p>Informally, the idea is to generalize the Lyapunov conditions,
        $V(\bx) \succ 0, \dot{V}(\bx) \preceq 0,$ into the more general form
        $$V(\bx) \succ 0, \quad \dot{V}(\bx) \preceq s(\bx, \bw),$$ where $\bw$
        is the input of interest in this setting, and $s()$ is a scalar
        quantity representing a "supply rate". Once a system has input, the
        value of $V$ may go up or it may go down, but if we can bound the way
        that it goes up by a simple function of the input, then we may still be
        able to provide input-to-state or input-output bounds for the system.
        Integrating both sides of the derivative condition with respect to time
        yields: $$\forall \bx(0),\quad V(\bx(T)) \le V(\bx(0)) + \int_0^T
        s(\bx(t), \bw(t))dt.$$ </p>

        <p>To obtain a bound on the $L_2$ gain between input $\bw(t)$ and
        output $\bz(t)$, the supply rate of interest is $$s(\bx,\bw) = \gamma^2
        \|\bw\|^2 - \|\bz\|^2,$$ which yields $$\forall \bx(0),\quad V(\bx(T))
        \le V(\bx(0)) + \int_0^T \gamma^2 \|\bw(t)\|^2dt - \int_0^T
        \|\bz(t)\|^2dt .$$ Now, since this must hold for all $\bx(0)$, it holds
        for $\bx(0) = 0$.  Furthermore, we know $V(\bx(T))$ is non-negative, so
        we also have $$0 \le V(\bx(T)) \le \int_0^T \gamma^2 \|\bw(t)\|^2dt -
        \int_0^T \|\bz(t)\|^2dt .$$  Therefore, if we can find a $V$ that
        satisfied the dissipation inequality for this storage function, we have
        certified the $\gamma$ is an $L_2$ gain for the system: $$
        \frac{\int_0^T \| \bz(t) \|^2 dt}{\int_0^T \| \bw(t) \|^2dt} \le
        \gamma^2.$$</p>
  
      </subsubsection>
  
      <subsubsection><h1>Small-gain theorem</h1>
      
        <todo>Robust control diagram</todo>
        <p>Coming soon...</p>
        <todo>I like the statement of the basic result from Sasha:
        http://web.mit.edu/6.241/ameg_www_fall2006/www/images/L06smallgain.pdf
        </todo>
        
      </subsubsection>
  
      <subsubsection><h1>Model uncertainty as a special case.</h1>

        <todo>Diagram in my notes (e.g. from 2022). In the special case of w
        being the output of a Delta block (which is itself a function of the
        output z), and that uncertainty block has bounded L2 gain, then we can
        recover deterministic stability.</todo>

      </subsubsection>

      <todo>IQCs</todo>


    </subsection>

    <subsection><h1>Robust LQR as $\mathcal{H}_\infty$</h1>

      <p>Let's consider a robust variant of the LQR problem: \begin{gather*}
      \min_{\bu[\cdot]} \max_{\bw[\cdot]} \sum_{n=0}^\infty \bx^T[n]\bQ\bx[n] +
      \bu^T[n] \bR\bu[n] - \gamma^2 \bw^T[n]\bw[n],\\ \bx[n+1] = \bA\bx[n] +
      \bB\bu[n] + \bB_\bw \bw[n],\\ \bQ=\bQ^T \succeq 0, \bR = \bR^T \succ 0.
      \end{gather*} The reason for this choice of cost function will become
      clear in the derivation, but the intuition is that we want to reward the
      controller for having a small response to large $\bw[\cdot]$. Note that
      unlike the stochastic LQR formulation, here we do not specify the
      distribution over $\bw[n]$, and in fact we don't even restrict it to a
      bounded set.  All we know is that at each time step, an omniscient
      adversary is allowed to choose the $\bw[n]$ that tries to maximize this
      objective.</p>

      <p>In fact, since we don't need to specify a continuous-time random
      process and the continuous-time derivation is both cleaner and by now, I
      think, more familiar, let's do this one in continuous time.
      \begin{gather*} \min_{\bu[\cdot]} \max_{\bw[\cdot]} \int_{n=0}^\infty dt
      \left[\bx^T(t)\bQ\bx(t) + \bu^T(t) \bR\bu(t) - \gamma^2
      \bw^T(t)\bw(t)\right],\\ \dot\bx(t) = \bA\bx(t) + \bB\bu(t) + \bB_\bw
      \bw(t),\\ \bQ=\bQ^T \succeq 0, \bR = \bR^T \succ 0. \end{gather*} We will
      once again guess a quadratic cost-to-go function: $$J(\bx) = \bx^T {\bf
      S} \bx, \quad {\bf S} = {\bf S}^T \succ 0.$$ The dynamic programming
      recursion still holds for this problem , resulting in the Bellman
      equation: $$\forall \bx,\quad 0 = \min_\bu \max_\bw \left[\bx^T\bQ\bx +
      \bu^T\bR\bu - \gamma^2 \bw^T\bw + \pd{J^*}{\bx}[\bA\bx + \bB\bu + \bB_\bw
      \bw]\right].$$ Since the inside is a concave quadratic form over $\bw$,
      we can solve for the adversary by finding the maximum: \begin{gather*}
      \pd{}{\bw} = -2 \gamma^2 \bw^T + 2\bx^T {\bf S} \bB_\bw,\\ \bw^* =
      \frac{1}{\gamma^2} \bB_\bw^T {\bf S} \bx.\end{gather*} This is the
      disturbance input that can cause the largest cost; the optimal play for
      the adversary. Now we can solve the remainder as we did with the original
      LQR problem: \begin{gather*} \pd{}{\bu} = 2 \bu^T \bR + 2\bx^T {\bf S}
      \bB,\\ \bu^* = -\bR^{-1} \bB^T {\bf S} \bx = -\bK \bx.\end{gather*}
      Substituting this back into the Bellman equation gives: $$0 = \bQ + {\bf
      S}\left[ \gamma^{-2} \bB_\bw \bB_\bw^T - \bB \bR^{-1} \bB^T \right]{\bf
      S} + {\bf S}^T \bA + \bA^T {\bf S},$$ which is the original LQR Riccati
      equation with one additional term involving $\gamma.$ And like the
      original LQR Riccati equation, we must ask whether it has a
      positive-definite solution for ${\bf S}$. It turns out that if the system
      is stabilizable and $\gamma$ large enough, then it does have a PD
      solution. However, as we reduce $\gamma$ towards zero, there will be some
      threshold $\gamma$ beneath which this Riccati equation does not have a PD
      solution.  Intuitively, if $\gamma$ is too small, then the adversary is
      rewarded for injecting disturbances that are so large as to break the
      convergence.</p>

      <p>Here is the fascinating thing: the $\gamma$ in this robust LQR cost
      function can be interpreted as an $L_2$ gain for the system. Recall that
      when we were making connections between the Bellman equation and Lyapunov
      equations, we observed that the Bellman equation can be written as
      $\forall \bx, \quad \dot{J}^*(\bx) \le -\ell(\bx,\bu)$? Here this yields:
      $$\forall \bx, \quad \dot{J}^*(\bx) \le \gamma^2 \bw^T(t)\bw(t) -
      \bx^T(t)\bQ\bx(t) - \bu^T(t) \bR\bu(t).$$ This means that the cost-to-go
      is a valid dissipation inequality for the supply rate that provides an
      $L_2$ gain for the performance output $\bz = \begin{bmatrix}\sqrt{\bQ}
      \bx \\ \sqrt{\bR} \bu\end{bmatrix}.$  Moreover, we can find the minimal
      $L_2$ gain by finding the minimal $\gamma > 0$ for which the Riccati
      equation has a positive-definite solution. And given the properties of
      the Riccati equation, this can be done with a line search in
      $\gamma$.</p>

      <p>Because the $L_2$ gain is the $\mathcal{H}_\infty$-norm of the system,
      this recipe of searching for the smallest $\gamma$ and taking the Riccati
      solution is an instance of $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ control design.</p>
    </subsection>

    <todo>  Loftberg 2003 for
      constrained version (w/ disturbance feedback). 
    </todo>

    <subsection><h1>Linear Exponential-Quadratic Gaussian (LEQG)</h1>

      <p><elib>Jacobson73</elib> observed that it is also straight-forward to
      minimize the objective: $$J = E\left[ \prod_{n=0}^\infty e^{\bx^T[n] {\bf
      Q} \bx[n]} e^{\bu^T[n] {\bf R} \bu[n]} \right] = E\left[
      e^{\sum_{n=0}^\infty \bx^T[n] {\bf Q} \bx[n] + \bu^T[n] {\bf R} \bu[n]}
      \right],$$ with ${\bf Q} = {\bf Q}^T \ge {\bf 0}, {\bf R} = {\bf R}^T >
      0,$ by observing that the cost is monotonically related to $\log{J}$, and
      therefore has the same minima (this same trick forms the basis for
      "geometric programming" <elib>Boyd07</elib>). This is known as the
      "Linear Exponential-Quadratic Gaussian" (LEG or LEQG), and for the
      deterministic version of the problem (no process nor measurement noise)
      the solution is identical to the LQR problem; it adds no new modeling
      power.  But with noise, the LEQG optimal controllers are different from
      the LQG controllers; they depend explicitly on the covariance of the
      noise.  
        
      <todo>introduce the coefficient \sigma here, instead of just throwing it
      in from the start. The coefficient $\sigma$ in the objective is referred
      to as the "risk-sensitivity parameter" <elib>Whittle90</elib>.
      </todo>
      </p>

      <todo>Insert simplest form of the derivation here, plus an example.</todo>

      <p><elib>Whittle90</elib> provides an extensive treatment of this framework;
      nearly all of the analysis from LQR/LQG (including Riccati equations,
      Hamiltonian formulations, etc) have analogs for their versions with
      exponential cost, and he argues that LQG and H-infinity control can
      (should?) be understood as special cases of this approach.</p>
    </subsection>

    <subsection><h1>Adaptive control</h1>

      <p>The standard criticism of $\mathcal{H}_2$ optimal control is that minimizing the
      expected value does not allow any guarantees on performance.  The
      standard criticism of $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ optimal control is that it concerns
      itself with the worst case, and may therefore be conservative, especially
      because distributions over possible disturbances chosen a priori may be
      unnecessarily conservative.  One might hope that we could get some of
      this performance back if we are able to update our models of uncertainty
      online, adapting to the statistics of the disturbances we actually
      receive.  This is one of the goals of adaptive control.</p> 

      <p>One of the fundamental problems in online adaptive control is the
      trade-off between exploration and exploitation.  Some inputs might drive
      the system to build more accurate models of the dynamics / uncertainty
      quickly, which could lead to better performance.  But how can we
      formalize this trade-off?
      </p>

      <p>There has been some nice progress on this challenge in machine
      learning in the setting of (contextual) <a
      href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit">multi-armed
      bandit</a>  problems.  For our purposes, you can think of bandits as a
      limiting case of an optimal control problem where there are no dynamics
      (the effects of one control action do not effect the results of the next
      control action).  In this simpler setting, the online optimization
      community has developed exploration-exploitation strategies based on the
      notion of minimizing <i>regret</i> -- typically the accumulated
      difference in the performance achieved by my online algorithm vs the
      performance that would have been achieved if I had been privy to the data
      from my experiments before I started.  This has led to methods that make
      use of concepts like upper-confidence bound (UCB) and more recently
      bounds using a least-squares squares confidence bound
      <elib>Foster20</elib> to provide bounds on the regret.</p>

      <p>In the last few years, we've see these results translated into the setting of linear optimal control... </p>

      <todo>finish this... cite Elad / Max</todo>
    
    </subsection>

    <subsection><h1>Structured uncertainty</h1>
    
      <todo>$\mu$ synthesis. D-K iterations.</todo>

    </subsection>

    <subsection><h1>Linear parameter-varying (LPV) control</h1>

      <todo>
      Pendulum example from Briat15 1.4.1 (and the references therein).
      </todo>
    
    </subsection>

  </section>

  <section><h1>Trajectory optimization</h1>
  
    <subsection><h1>Monte-carlo trajectory optimization</h1>

      <todo>Bregman divergence ADMM in guided policy search from Sergey?  Abhi recommended this paper for it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00702 <elib>Levine16</elib> </todo>

    </subsection>
    <subsection><h1>Iterative $\mathcal{H}_2$/iLQG</h1>

      <todo>cover iLQR and perhaps Scott's UKF version in the output-feedback chapter?</todo>
    </subsection>

    <subsection><h1>Finite-time (reachability) analysis</h1>

      <p>Coming soon...</p>
      <todo>Finite-time (reachability) analysis.  Sadra's polytopic
        containment: Sadraddini19a</todo>
      <todo>Steinhardt11a</todo>
    </subsubsection>
  
    <subsection><h1>Robust MPC</h1>

      <todo>Tube MPC <elib>Mayne05</elib>, Sadra linear polytopic containment <elib>Sadraddini19a</elib>,
      ellipsoidal approximations (via SDP relaxations).</todo>
    
    </subsection>

    <todo>iLEQG/iLEG.</todo>

  </section>

  <section><h1>Nonlinear analysis and control</h1>
  

    <todo>Stochastic verification of nonlinear systems. (Having bounds on
    expected value does yield bounds on system state).

    Uncertainty quantification (e.g., linear guassian
    approximation; discretize then closed form solutions using the transition
    matrix....).  Monte-Carlo. Particle sim/filter. Rare event simulation </p>

    <p>L2-gain with dissipation inequalities.  Finite-time verification with
    sums of squares.</p>

    <p>Occupation Measures</p>


    SOS-based design
    </todo>

  </section>

  <section><h1>Domain randomization</h1>
    <todo>and empirical risk?</todo>
  </section>

  <section><h1>Extensions</h1>
  
    <subsection><h1>Alternative risk/robustness metrics</h1>
    
      <todo>e.g. Ani + Pavone</todo>
    </subsection>

  </section>

</chapter>
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