[HTML][HTML] Optimization algorithms as robust feedback controllers

A Hauswirth, Z He, S Bolognani, G Hug… - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Mathematical optimization is one of the cornerstones of modern engineering research and
practice. Yet, throughout all application domains, mathematical optimization is, for the most …

Time-varying convex optimization: Time-structured algorithms and applications

A Simonetto, E Dall'Anese, S Paternain… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimization underpins many of the challenges that science and technology face on a daily
basis. Recent years have witnessed a major shift from traditional optimization paradigms …

Online optimization with predictions and switching costs: Fast algorithms and the fundamental limit

Y Li, G Qu, N Li - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article considers online optimization with a finite prediction window of cost functions
and additional switching costs on the decisions. We study the fundamental limits of dynamic …

A scalable distributed online algorithm for optimal power flow in distribution system

X Zhu, X Han, M Yang, Y Xu, D Sun, W Li - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a scalable distributed online algorithm is proposed for solving optimal power
flow (OPF) in real time. The operation of distribution systems can be continuously driven …

Optimal distributed convex optimization on slowly time-varying graphs

A Rogozin, CA Uribe, AV Gasnikov… - … on Control of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study optimal distributed first-order optimization algorithms when the network (ie,
communication constraints between the agents) changes with time. This problem is …

Quantitative sensitivity bounds for nonlinear programming and time-varying optimization

I Subotić, A Hauswirth, F Dörfler - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by classical sensitivity results for nonlinear optimization, we derive and discuss new
quantitative bounds to characterize the solution map and dual variables of a parametrized …

On the robust implementation of projected dynamical systems with anti-windup controllers

A Hauswirt, F Dörfler, A Teel - 2020 American Control …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While projected dynamical systems (PDS) are mathematically well-defined and useful for
modeling dynamics for constrained optimization and variational inequalities, their physical …

Escaping spurious local minimum trajectories in online time-varying nonconvex optimization

Y Ding, J Lavaei, M Arcak - 2021 American Control Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with solving online nonconvex optimization problems using simple
gradient-based algorithms with an arbitrary initialization. The main objective is to understand …

Anti-windup approximations of oblique projected dynamics for feedback-based optimization

A Hauswirth, F Dörfler, A Teel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00478, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this paper we study how high-gain anti-windup schemes can be used to implement
projected dynamical systems in control loops that are subject to saturation on a (possibly …

Distributed optimal-tracking control to coordinate the optimization of active distribution networks with automatic generation control

X Zhu, X Han, Y Xu, J Li - International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
To the shortage of automatic generation control (AGC) resources in power systems with high
proportions of renewable generators, this paper proposes an optimal-tracking control …