Geometry of adaptive control: optimization and geodesies

摘要

Two incompatible topologies appear in the study of adaptive systems: the graph topology in control design, and the coefficient topology in system identification. Their incompatibility is manifest in the stabilization problem of adaptive control. We argue that this problem can be approached by changing the geometry of the sets of control systems under consideration: estimating n_p parameters in an n_p-dimensional manifold whose points all correspond to stabilizable systems. One way to construct the manifold is using the properties of the algebraic Riccati equation. Parameter estimation can be approached as an optimal control problem akin to the deterministic Kalman filter, leading to algorithms that can be used in conjunction with standard observers and controllers to construct stable adaptive systems.