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Robust Recurrence of Discrete-Time Infinite-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control with Discounted Cost

Published: April 29, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.20705v1

By: Robert H. Moldenhauer , Dragan Nešić , Mathieu Granzotto and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes smart systems more reliable with changing rules.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

We analyze the stability of general nonlinear discrete-time stochastic systems controlled by optimal inputs that minimize an infinite-horizon discounted cost. Under a novel stochastic formulation of cost-controllability and detectability assumptions inspired by the related literature on deterministic systems, we prove that uniform semi-global practical recurrence holds for the closed-loop system, where the adjustable parameter is the discount factor. Under additional continuity assumptions, we further prove that this property is robust.

Country of Origin
🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 France, United States, Australia

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Optimization and Control