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In this work, we study an LQG control system where one of two feedback channels is discrete and incurs a communication cost. We assume that a decoder (co-located with the controller) can make noiseless measurements of a subset of the state vector (referred to as side information) meanwhile a remote encoder (co-located with a sensor) can make arbitrary measurements of the entire state vector, but must convey its measurements to the decoder over a noiseless binary channel. Use of the channel incurs a communication cost, quantified as the time-averaged expected length of prefix-free binary codeword. We study the tradeoff between the communication cost and control performance. The formulation motivates a constrained directed information minimization problem, which can be solved via convex optimization. Using the optimization, we propose a quantizer design and a subsequent achievability result.
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A Lower-Bound for Variable-Length Source Coding in Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian Control With Shared Randomness
In this letter, we consider a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control system where feedback occurs over a noiseless binary channel and derive lower bounds on the minimum communication cost (quantified via the channel bitrate) required to attain a given control performance. We assume that at every time step an encoder can convey a packet containing a variable number of bits over the channel to a decoder at the controller. Our system model provides for the possibility that the encoder and decoder have shared randomness, as is the case in systems using dithered quantizers. We define two extremal prefix-free requirements that may be imposed on the message packets; such constraints are useful in that they allow the decoder, and potentially other agents to uniquely identify the end of a transmission in an online fashion. We then derive a lower bound on the rate of prefix-free coding in terms of directed information; in particular we show that a previously known bound still holds in the case with shared randomness. We generalize the bound for when prefix constraints are relaxed, and conclude with a rate-distortion formulation.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1944318
- PAR ID:
- 10488407
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE control systems letters
- Volume:
- 6
- ISSN:
- 2475-1456
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 2918 - 2923
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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