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Poster
Data Sharing and Compression for Cooperative Networked Control
Jiangnan Cheng · Marco Pavone · Sachin Katti · Sandeep Chinchali · Ao Tang

Thu Dec 09 04:30 PM -- 06:00 PM (PST) @
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Sharing forecasts of network timeseries data, such as cellular or electricity load patterns, can improve independent control applications ranging from traffic scheduling to power generation. Typically, forecasts are designed without knowledge of a downstream controller's task objective, and thus simply optimize for mean prediction error. However, such task-agnostic representations are often too large to stream over a communication network and do not emphasize salient temporal features for cooperative control. This paper presents a solution to learn succinct, highly-compressed forecasts that are co-designed with a modular controller's task objective. Our simulations with real cellular, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and electricity load data show we can improve a model predictive controller's performance by at least 25% while transmitting 80% less data than the competing method. Further, we present theoretical compression results for a networked variant of the classical linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control problem.

Keywords: Representation Learning

Author Information

Jiangnan Cheng (Cornell University)
Marco Pavone (Stanford University)
Sachin Katti (Stanford University)
Sandeep Chinchali (University of Texas, Austin)
Ao Tang (Cornell University)

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