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On Riccati contraction in time-varying linear-quadratic control

Systems and Control 2023-09-06 v2 Systems and Control Optimization and Control

Abstract

Contraction properties of the Riccati operator are studied within the context of non-stationary linear-quadratic optimal control. A lifting approach is used to obtain a bound on the rate of strict contraction, with respect to the Riemannian metric, across a sufficient number of iterations. This number of iterations is related to an assumed uniform controllability and observability property of the dynamics and stage-cost in the original formulation of the problem.

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@article{arxiv.2305.06003,
  title  = {On Riccati contraction in time-varying linear-quadratic control},
  author = {Jintao Sun and Michael Cantoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06003},
  year   = {2023}
}
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