15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ACTIVE DUAL CONTROL FOR LINEAR-QUADRATIC GAUSSIAN SYSTEM WITH UNKNOWN PARAMETERS
Peilin Fu* Duan Li*,1 Fucai Qian**
* Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering
Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
** School of Automation and Information Engineering
Xi’an University of Technology

This paper deals with a class of linear-quadratic Gaussian control problems where there exist parameter uncertainties in both the state and observation equations. An active dual control law is derived by using a variance minimization approach while an embedding scheme is proposed to overcome nonseparability in variance minimization. In order to solve the resulting auxiliary parametic problem, a solution method is adopted to treat the true system with uncertain parameters as a composition of multiple fictitious systems with completely known parameters, while the amount of contribution from the state of each fictitious system to the overall performance index at each stage is determined by the current posterior probability.
Keywords: Dual control, Stochastic control, Dynamic programming, LQG control

1Corresponding Author: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, Email: dli@se.cuhk.edu.hk
E-mail: dli@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Session slot T-Mo-M03: Mathematical Methods in Adaptive Control/Area code 3b : Adaptive Control and Tuning