Download or read book An Optimal Control Approximation for a Certain Class of Nonlinear Filtering Problems written by Talal Umar Halawani and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approximation technique to a certain class of nonlinear filtering problems is considered in this dissertation. The method is based on an approximation of nonlinear, partially-observable systems by a stochastic control problem with fully observable state. The filter development proceeds from the assumption that the unobservables are conditionally Gaussian with respect to the observations initially. The concepts of both conditionally Gaussian processes and an optimal-control approach to filtering are utilized in the filter development. A two-step, nonlinear, recursive estimation procedure (TNF), compatible with the logical structure of the optimal mean-square estimator, generates a finite-dimensional, nonlinear filter with improved characteristics over most of the traditional methods. Moreover, a "close" (in the mean-square sense) approximation model for the original system will be generated as well. In general the nonlinear filtering problem does not have a finite-dimensional recursive synthesis. Thus, the proposed technique may expand the range of practical problems that can be handled by nonlinear filtering. A detailed derivation for the filter with global property is presented. Extension of the results to largescale nonlinear systems is accomplished by incorporating a novel decomposition scheme in the filter design. Application of the developed filter to a scalar nonlinear system which lacks model "smoothness" is presented in [K2]. Application of the derived multi-dimensional filtering algorithm to two low-order, nonlinear tracking problems according to a global criterion and a local-time criterion respectively are presented. Also, a comparison with traditional methods, such as the popular Extended-Kalman Filter (EKE), are given via digital-computer simulation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the obtained results.
Download or read book An Optimal Approximation for a Certain Class of Nonlinear Filtering Problems written by Talal Umar Halawani and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approximation technique to a certain class of nonlinear filtering problems is considered. The method is based on an approximation of nonlinear, partially observable systems by a stochastic control problem with fully observable state. The filter development proceeds from the assumption that the unobservables are conditionally Gaussian with respect to the observations initially. The concepts of both conditionally Gaussian processes and an optimal-control approach to filtering are utilized in the filter development. A two-step, nonlinear, recursive estimation procedure (TNF), compatible with the logical structure of the optimal mean-square estimator, generates a finite-dimensional, nonlinear filter with improved characteristics over most of the traditional methods. Moreover, a close (in the mean-square sense) approximation for the original system will be generated as well. In general the nonlinear filtering problem does not have a finite-dimensional recursive synthesis. Thus, the proposed technique may expand the range of practical problems that can be handled by nonlinear filtering. Application of the derived multi-dimensional filtering algorithm to two low-order, nonlinear tracking problems according to a global criterion and a local-time criterion respectively are presented.
Download or read book Singular Optimal Control Problems written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1975-10-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we study theoretical and practical aspects of computing methods for mathematical modelling of nonlinear systems. A number of computing techniques are considered, such as methods of operator approximation with any given accuracy; operator interpolation techniques including a non-Lagrange interpolation; methods of system representation subject to constraints associated with concepts of causality, memory and stationarity; methods of system representation with an accuracy that is the best within a given class of models; methods of covariance matrix estimation;methods for low-rank matrix approximations; hybrid methods based on a combination of iterative procedures and best operator approximation; andmethods for information compression and filtering under condition that a filter model should satisfy restrictions associated with causality and different types of memory.As a result, the book represents a blend of new methods in general computational analysis,and specific, but also generic, techniques for study of systems theory ant its particularbranches, such as optimal filtering and information compression.- Best operator approximation,- Non-Lagrange interpolation,- Generic Karhunen-Loeve transform- Generalised low-rank matrix approximation- Optimal data compression- Optimal nonlinear filtering
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Download or read book Probability Methods for Approximations in Stochastic Control and for Elliptic Equations written by Kushner and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1977-04-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probability Methods for Approximations in Stochastic Control and for Elliptic Equations
Download or read book Some Numerical Methods for a Class of Nonlinear Optimal Control Problems written by Bing Yang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Control of Systems with Aftereffect written by Vladimir Borisovich Kolmanovskiĭ and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deterministic and stochastic control systems with aftereffect are considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the optimality of such systems are obtained. Various methods for the construction of exact and approximate solutions of optimal control problems are suggested. Problems of adaptive control for systems with aftereffect are analyzed. Numerous applications are described. The book can be used by researchers, engineers, and graduate students working in optimal control theory and various applications.
Download or read book Numerical Methods for Stochastic Control Problems in Continuous Time written by Harold Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic control is a very active area of research. This monograph, written by two leading authorities in the field, has been updated to reflect the latest developments. It covers effective numerical methods for stochastic control problems in continuous time on two levels, that of practice and that of mathematical development. It is broadly accessible for graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Some Successive Approximation Methods in Control and Oscillation Theory by Peter L Falb and Jan L de Jong written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we study theoretical and practical aspects of computing methods for mathematical modelling of nonlinear systems. A number of computing techniques are considered, such as methods of operator approximation with any given accuracy; operator interpolation techniques including a non-Lagrange interpolation; methods of system representation subject to constraints associated with concepts of causality, memory and stationarity; methods of system representation with an accuracy that is the best within a given class of models; methods of covariance matrix estimation;methods for low-rank matrix approximations; hybrid methods based on a combination of iterative procedures and best operator approximation; andmethods for information compression and filtering under condition that a filter model should satisfy restrictions associated with causality and different types of memory.As a result, the book represents a blend of new methods in general computational analysis,and specific, but also generic, techniques for study of systems theory ant its particularbranches, such as optimal filtering and information compression.- Best operator approximation,- Non-Lagrange interpolation,- Generic Karhunen-Loeve transform- Generalised low-rank matrix approximation- Optimal data compression- Optimal nonlinear filtering
Download or read book Stochastic Control written by N.K. Sinha and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic control, the control of random processes, has become increasingly more important to the systems analyst and engineer. The Second IFAC Symposium on Stochastic Control represents current thinking on all aspects of stochastic control, both theoretical and practical, and as such represents a further advance in the understanding of such systems.
Download or read book Use of Services for Family Planning and Infertility United States 1982 written by Gerry E. Hendershot and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1982 statistics on the use of family planning and infertility services presented in this report are preliminary results from Cycle III of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data were collected through personal interviews with a multistage area probability sample of 7969 women aged 15-44. A detailed series of questions was asked to obtain relatively complete estimates of the extent and type of family planning services received. Statistics on family planning services are limited to women who were able to conceive 3 years before the interview date. Overall, 79% of currently mrried nonsterile women reported using some type of family planning service during the previous 3 years. There were no statistically significant differences between white (79%), black (75%) or Hispanic (77%) wives, or between the 2 income groups. The 1982 survey questions were more comprehensive than those of earlier cycles of the survey. The annual rate of visits for family planning services in 1982 was 1077 visits /1000 women. Teenagers had the highest annual visit rate (1581/1000) of any age group for all sources of family planning services combined. Visit rates declined sharply with age from 1447 at ages 15-24 to 479 at ages 35-44. Similar declines with age also were found in the visit rates for white and black women separately. Nevertheless, the annual visit rate for black women (1334/1000) was significantly higher than that for white women (1033). The highest overall visit rate was for black women 15-19 years of age (1867/1000). Nearly 2/3 of all family planning visits were to private medical sources. Teenagers of all races had higher family planning service visit rates to clinics than to private medical sources, as did black women age 15-24. White women age 20 and older had higher visit rates to private medical services than to clinics. Never married women had higher visit rates to clinics than currently or formerly married women. Data were also collected in 1982 on use of medical services for infertility by women who had difficulty in conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to term. About 1 million ever married women had 1 or more infertility visits in the 12 months before the interview. During the 3 years before interview, about 1.9 million women had infertility visits. For all ever married women, as well as for white and black women separately, infertility services were more likely to be secured from private medical sources than from clinics. The survey design, reliability of the estimates and the terms used are explained in the technical notes.
Download or read book Optimal Control Systems by AA Fel Dbaum written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we study theoretical and practical aspects of computing methods for mathematical modelling of nonlinear systems. A number of computing techniques are considered, such as methods of operator approximation with any given accuracy; operator interpolation techniques including a non-Lagrange interpolation; methods of system representation subject to constraints associated with concepts of causality, memory and stationarity; methods of system representation with an accuracy that is the best within a given class of models; methods of covariance matrix estimation;methods for low-rank matrix approximations; hybrid methods based on a combination of iterative procedures and best operator approximation; andmethods for information compression and filtering under condition that a filter model should satisfy restrictions associated with causality and different types of memory.As a result, the book represents a blend of new methods in general computational analysis,and specific, but also generic, techniques for study of systems theory ant its particularbranches, such as optimal filtering and information compression.- Best operator approximation,- Non-Lagrange interpolation,- Generic Karhunen-Loeve transform- Generalised low-rank matrix approximation- Optimal data compression- Optimal nonlinear filtering
Download or read book Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal Control written by Wendell H. Fleming and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book may be regarded as consisting of two parts. In Chapters I-IV we pre sent what we regard as essential topics in an introduction to deterministic optimal control theory. This material has been used by the authors for one semester graduate-level courses at Brown University and the University of Kentucky. The simplest problem in calculus of variations is taken as the point of departure, in Chapter I. Chapters II, III, and IV deal with necessary conditions for an opti mum, existence and regularity theorems for optimal controls, and the method of dynamic programming. The beginning reader may find it useful first to learn the main results, corollaries, and examples. These tend to be found in the earlier parts of each chapter. We have deliberately postponed some difficult technical proofs to later parts of these chapters. In the second part of the book we give an introduction to stochastic optimal control for Markov diffusion processes. Our treatment follows the dynamic pro gramming method, and depends on the intimate relationship between second order partial differential equations of parabolic type and stochastic differential equations. This relationship is reviewed in Chapter V, which may be read inde pendently of Chapters I-IV. Chapter VI is based to a considerable extent on the authors' work in stochastic control since 1961. It also includes two other topics important for applications, namely, the solution to the stochastic linear regulator and the separation principle.
Download or read book Weak Convergence Methods and Singularly Perturbed Stochastic Control and Filtering Problems written by Harold Kushner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with several closely related topics concerning approxima tions and perturbations of random processes and their applications to some important and fascinating classes of problems in the analysis and design of stochastic control systems and nonlinear filters. The basic mathematical methods which are used and developed are those of the theory of weak con vergence. The techniques are quite powerful for getting weak convergence or functional limit theorems for broad classes of problems and many of the techniques are new. The original need for some of the techniques which are developed here arose in connection with our study of the particular applica tions in this book, and related problems of approximation in control theory, but it will be clear that they have numerous applications elsewhere in weak convergence and process approximation theory. The book is a continuation of the author's long term interest in problems of the approximation of stochastic processes and its applications to problems arising in control and communication theory and related areas. In fact, the techniques used here can be fruitfully applied to many other areas. The basic random processes of interest can be described by solutions to either (multiple time scale) Ito differential equations driven by wide band or state dependent wide band noise or which are singularly perturbed. They might be controlled or not, and their state values might be fully observable or not (e. g. , as in the nonlinear filtering problem).
Download or read book Applied Mechanics Reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Filtering and Control of Random Processes written by Hayri Korezlioglu and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neural Nets Wirn Vietri 95 Proceedings Of The Vii Italian Workshop written by Maria Marinaro and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-01-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the seventh Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI '95, organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies 'E R Caianiello' (IIASS) and Società Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN).The spectrum of contributors and participants covers the activity of Italian research in the field. The papers of the two invited speakers, M J Jordan ('Sigmoid Belief Networks') and E Oja ('Principal and Independent Component Analysis'), and the two reviews ('Fast Learning Algorithms for Feedforward NN' and 'ANN Ensembles: a Bayesian Standpoint') complete the highly qualified contents of the volume.
