Direct Data-Driven State-Feedback Control of Linear Parameter-Varying Systems

The framework of linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems has shown to be a powerful tool for the design of controllers for complex nonlinear systems using linear tools. In this work, we derive novel methods that allow to synthesize LPV state-feedback controllers directly from a single sequence of data and guarantee stability and performance of the closed-loop system, without knowing the model of the plant. We show that if the measured open-loop data from the system satisfies a persistency of excitation condition, then the full open-loop and closed-loop input-scheduling-state behavior can be represented using only the data. With this representation, we formulate synthesis problems that yield controllers that guarantee stability and performance in terms of infinite horizon quadratic cost, generalized $\mathcal{H}2$-norm and $\ell2$-gain of the closed-loop system. The controllers are synthesized by solving an SDP with a finite set of LMI constraints. Additionally, we provide a synthesis method to handle noisy measurement data. Competitive performance of the proposed data-driven synthesis methods is demonstrated w.r.t. model-based synthesis that have complete knowledge of the true system model in multiple simulation studies, including a nonlinear unbalanced disc system.