A New Class of Statistical Performance Criteria for Stochastic Linear Control Systems


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A set of performance statistics known as cumulants show the way to new design criteria for stochastic linear control systems. The new criteria allow the designer to affect the probability distribution of performance measures which do away with the need for stochastic simulation. Controllers arising in this new format are linear-dynamical and exhibit the classical separation property. (Author).




Design of Stochastic Linear Control Systems According to Cumulant Based Performance Criteria


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A set of performance statistics known as cumulants show the way to new design criteria for stochastic linear control systems. The new criteria allow the designer to affect the probability distribution of performance measures which do away with the need for stochastic simulation. Controllers arising in this new format are linear-dynamical and exhibit the classical separation property. A class of controllers which is sub-optional with respect to the new criteria is developed. Controller performance within this class is compared to controller performance resulting from the new design criteria. (Author).













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Stochastic Models, Estimation, and Control


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This volume builds upon the foundations set in Volumes 1 and 2. Chapter 13 introduces the basic concepts of stochastic control and dynamic programming as the fundamental means of synthesizing optimal stochastic control laws.




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Resilient Controls for Ordering Uncertain Prospects


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Providing readers with a detailed examination of resilient controls in risk-averse decision, this monograph is aimed toward researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics and electrical engineering with a systems-theoretic concentration. This work contains a timely and responsive evaluation of reforms on the use of asymmetry or skewness pertaining to the restrictive family of quadratic costs that have been appeared in various scholarly forums. Additionally, the book includes a discussion of the current and ongoing efforts in the usage of risk, dynamic game decision optimization and disturbance mitigation techniques with output feedback measurements tailored toward the worst-case scenarios. This work encompasses some of the current changes across uncertainty quantification, stochastic control communities, and the creative efforts that are being made to increase the understanding of resilient controls. Specific considerations are made in this book for the application of decision theory to resilient controls of the linear-quadratic class of stochastic dynamical systems. Each of these topics are examined explicitly in several chapters. This monograph also puts forward initiatives to reform both control decisions with risk consequences and correct-by-design paradigms for performance reliability associated with the class of stochastic linear dynamical systems with integral quadratic costs and subject to network delays, control and communication constraints.