Minimax Control of Discrete Time Stochastic Systems
Minimax Control of Discrete Time Stochastic Systems
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DOI:
10.1137/0302034
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发表时间:
1964
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通讯作者:
D. Sworder
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D. Sworder
1. Introduction. In this paper the synthesis of a control policy for an object with stochastic elements will be investigated. The randomness associated with the object to be controlled can come about in several different ways. For example, the control rule to be used may depend explicitly on output measurements from the system whichare contaminated with additive random noise. On the other hand, it might be that some ofthe parameters which are contained in the equations describing the process are random variables. If the criterion of performance is a nonnegative functional of the system state and of the control policy, one might hope to choose the control in such a way that the expected value of this functional is minimized. In the case where certain parameters of the processare incompletely specified, this leads to the conceptual problem that an optimal control rule may be a function of these undetermined parameters. Since the performance index now provides only a partial ordering of control policies, an auxiliary criterion must be chosen to provide the designer with a" best" control. In what follows we will make extensive use of the definitions and results from thetheory ofgames as presented by Blackwell and Girshick [1]. It will be shown that the basic structural properties of the control problem can be formulated within the framework provided by this theory.