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arxiv 2508.07121 v1 pith:E2GXD6SI submitted 2025-08-09 eess.SY cs.SY

Distributionally Robust Control with Constraints on Linear Unidimensional Projections

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Distributionally robust control is a well-studied framework for optimal decision making under uncertainty, with the objective of minimizing an expected cost function over control actions, assuming the most adverse probability distribution from an ambiguity set. We consider an interpretable and expressive class of ambiguity sets defined by constraints on the expected value of functions of one-dimensional linear projections of the uncertain parameters. Prior work has shown that, under conditions, problems in this class can be reformulated as finite convex problems. In this work, we propose two iterative methods that can be used to approximately solve problems of this class in the general case. The first is an approximate algorithm based on best-response dynamics. The second is an approximate method that first reformulates the problem as a semi-infinite program and then solves a relaxation. We apply our methods to portfolio construction and trajectory planning scenarios.

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