The necessity and sufficiency of anytime capacity for stabilization of a linear system over a noisy communication link Part I: scalar systems

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2006-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0601007v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

27 pages, submitted to Information Theory Transactions

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We review how Shannon's classical notion of capacity is not enough to characterize a noisy communication channel if the channel is intended to be used as part of a feedback loop to stabilize an unstable scalar linear system. While classical capacity is not enough, another sense of capacity (parametrized by reliability) called ``anytime capacity'' is shown to be necessary for the stabilization of an unstable process. The required rate is given by the log of the unstable system gain and the required reliability comes from the sense of stability desired. A consequence of this necessity result is a sequential generalization of the Schalkwijk/Kailath scheme for communication over the AWGN channel with feedback. In cases of sufficiently rich information patterns between the encoder and decoder, adequate anytime capacity is also shown to be sufficient for there to exist a stabilizing controller. These sufficiency results are then generalized to cases with noisy observations, delayed control actions, and without any explicit feedback between the observer and the controller. Both necessary and sufficient conditions are extended to continuous time systems as well. We close with comments discussing a hierarchy of difficulty for communication problems and how these results establish where stabilization problems sit in that hierarchy.

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