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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…
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This paper is devoted to the analysis of a finite horizon discrete-time stochastic optimal control problem, in presence of constraints. We study the regularity of the value function which comes from the dynamic programming algorithm. We…
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In this article we address the issue of uniqueness for differential and algebraic operator Riccati equations, under a distinctive set of assumptions on their unbounded coefficients. The class of boundary control systems characterized by…
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