On the robustness of Riccati flows to complete model misspecification

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Journal Article
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Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2018, 355 (15), pp. 7178 - 7200
Issue Date:
2018-10-01
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© 2018 The Franklin Institute Consider the continuous-time matrix Riccati operator Ricc(Q)=AQ+QA′−QSQ+R. In this work, we consider the robustness of this operator to direct perturbations of the matrices (A, R, S) and, in particular, the flow robustness of the corresponding Riccati differential equation. For a given class of perturbation, we show that the corresponding differential equation is well defined in the sense it is bounded above and below, it has a well-defined fixed point, and it converges to this fixed point exponentially fast. Moreover, the flow of the perturbed Riccati flow is close to the nominal Riccati flow when the perturbation is small; i.e. we prove a continuity-type condition in the size of the perturbation.
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