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Optimal Control with Noisy Time

Optimization and Control 2014-01-03 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

This paper examines stochastic optimal control problems in which the state is perfectly known, but the controller's measure of time is a stochastic process derived from a strictly increasing L\'evy process. We provide dynamic programming results for continuous-time finite-horizon control and specialize these results to solve a noisy-time variant of the linear quadratic regulator problem and a portfolio optimization problem with random trade activity rates. For the linear quadratic case, the optimal controller is linear and can be computed from a generalization of the classical Riccati differential equation.

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@article{arxiv.1401.0202,
  title  = {Optimal Control with Noisy Time},
  author = {Andrew Lamperski and Noah J. Cowan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0202},
  year   = {2014}
}

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