Stochastic Processes Estimation And Control

Stochastic Processes, Estimation, and Control

The authors provide a comprehensive treatment of stochastic systems from the foundations of probability to stochastic optimal control. The book covers discrete- and continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems leading to the derivation of the Kalman filter, its properties, and its relation to the frequency domain Wiener filter aswell as the dynamic programming derivation of the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) and the linear exponential Gaussian (LEG) controllers and their relation to HÝsubscript 2¨ and HÝsubscript Ýinfinity¨¨ controllers and system robustness. This book is suitable for first-year graduate students in electrical, mechanical, chemical, and aerospace engineering specializing in systems and control. Students in computer science, economics, and possibly business will also find it useful.

STOCHASTIC PROCESSES, ESTIMATION AND CONTROL.

Stochastic Processes, Estimation, and Control

In this, the first introductory book on stochastic processes in twenty years, leading theoretician George Saridis provides a modern innovative approach that applies the most recent advances in probabilistic processes to such areas as communications and robotics technology. Stochastic Processes, Estimation, and Control: The Entropy Approach is designed as a text for graduate courses in dynamic programming and stochastic control, stochastic processes, or applied probability in the engineering or mathematical/computational science departments, and as a guide for the practicing engineer and researcher it offers a lucid discussion of parameter estimation based on least square techniques, an in-depth investigation of the estimation of the states of a stochastic linear and nonlinear dynamic system, and a modified derivation of the linear-quadratic Gaussian optimal control problem. Professor Saridis's presentation of estimation and control theory is thorough, but avoids the use of advanced mathematics. A new theory of approximation of the optimal solution for nonlinear stochastic systems is presented as a general engineering tool, and the whole area of stochastic processes, estimation, and control is recast using entropy as a measure.