Joint Synthesis of Trajectory and Controlled Invariant Funnel for Discrete-time Systems with Locally Lipschitz Nonlinearities

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This paper presents a joint synthesis algorithm of trajectory and controlled invariant funnel (CIF) for locally Lipschitz nonlinear systems subject to bounded disturbances. The CIF synthesis refers to a procedure of computing controlled invariance sets and corresponding feedback gains. In contrast to existing CIF synthesis methods that compute the CIF with a pre-defined nominal trajectory, our work aims to optimize the nominal trajectory and the CIF jointly to satisfy feasibility conditions without relaxation of constraints and obtain a more cost-optimal nominal trajectory. The proposed work has a recursive scheme that mainly optimizes two key components: i) trajectory update; ii) funnel update. The trajectory update step optimizes the nominal trajectory while ensuring the feasibility of the CIF. Then, the funnel update step computes the funnel around the nominal trajectory so that the CIF guarantees an invariance property. As a result, with the optimized trajectory and CIF, any resulting trajectory propagated from an initial set by the control law with the computed feedback gain remains within the feasible region around the nominal trajectory under the presence of bounded disturbances. We validate the proposed method via a three dimensional path planning problem with obstacle avoidance.

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