A Two-Dimensional Approach to Iterative Learning Control with Randomly Varying Trial Lengths

In this paper, iterative learning control(ILC) is considered to solve the tracking problem of time-varying linear stochastic systems with randomly varying trial lengths. Using the two-dimensional Kalman filtering technique, the authors can establish a recursive framework for designing the learning gain matrix along both time and iteration axes by optimizing the trace of input error covariance matrix.It is strictly proved that the input error converges to zero asymptotically in mean square sense and thus the tracking error covariance converges. The extensions to that prior distribution of nonuniform trial lengths is unknown are also investigated with an asymptotical estimation method. Numerical simulations are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework.