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Designing optimal controllers for nonlinear dynamical systems often relies on reinforcement learning and adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) to approximate solutions of the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equation. However, these methods…
This paper develops a semidefinite-programming-based method for online feedback control of nonlinear systems using a state-dependent representation. We formulate sequences of time-varying SDPs whose optimal solutions jointly yield a…
We devise and analyze a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for a semilinear control-constrained optimal control problem in two and three dimensional Lipschitz, but not necessarily convex, polytopal domains. We consider a…
This paper is concerned with zero-sum stochastic linear-quadratic differential games in a regime switching model. The coefficients of the games depend on the underlying noises, so it is a non-Markovian regime switching model. Based on the…
This paper addresses optimal feedback stabilizing control for bounded Jacobian nonlinear discrete-time (DT) systems with nonlinear observations, affected by state and process noise. Instead of directly stabilizing the uncertain system, we…
This paper, which is the natural continuation of a previous paper by the same authors, studies a class of optimal control problems with state constraints where the state equation is a differential equation with delays. This class includes…
Differential Riccati equations (DREs) are semilinear matrix- or operator-valued differential equations with quadratic non-linearities. They arise in many different areas, and are particularly important in optimal control of linear quadratic…
We devise an a posteriori error estimator for an affine optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE and control constraints. To approximate the problem, we consider a semidiscrete scheme based on the variational…
These notes are issued from a short course given by the author in a summer school in Chamb{\'e}ry in June 2015. We consider general semilinear PDE's and we address the following two questions: 1) How to design an efficient feedback control…
The optimal control input for linear systems can be solved from algebraic Riccati equation (ARE), from which it remains questionable to get the form of the exact solution. In engineering, the acceptable numerical solutions of ARE can be…
A deep learning approach for the approximation of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial differential equation (HJB PDE) associated to the Nonlinear Quadratic Regulator (NLQR) problem. A state-dependent Riccati equation control law is first…
Stabilization of linear control systems with parameter-dependent system matrices is investigated. A Riccati based feedback mechanism is proposed and analyzed. It is constructed by means of an ensemble of parameters from a training set. This…
Stabilizing feedback operators are presented which depend only on the orthogonal projection of the state onto the finite-dimensional control space. A class of monotone feedback operators mapping the finite-dimensional control space into…
This note studies the robust output feedback stabilization problem of a class of multi-input multi-output invertible nonlinear systems, for which an "ideal" state feedback based on feedback linearization can be designed under certain mild…
The purpose of this paper is to present an application of the State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) method to satellite attitude control where the satellite kinematics is modeled by Modified Rodriguez Parameters (MRP). The SDRE…
We address the control of Partial Differential equations (PDEs) with unknown parameters. Our objective is to devise an efficient algorithm capable of both identifying and controlling the unknown system. We assume that the desired PDE is…
We generalize the classical theory on algebraic Riccati equations and optimization to infinite-dimensional well-posed linear systems, thus completing the work of George Weiss, Olof Staffans and others. We show that the optimal control is…
This paper applies a reinforcement learning (RL) method to solve infinite horizon continuous-time stochastic linear quadratic problems, where drift and diffusion terms in the dynamics may depend on both the state and control. Based on…
The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation (HJB) provides the globally optimal solution to large classes of control problems. Unfortunately, this generality comes at a price, the calculation of such solutions is typically intractible for systems…