Linear-Quadratic Controls in Risk-Averse Decision Making Performance

​​Linear-Quadratic Controls in Risk-Averse Decision Making   cuts across control engineering (control feedback and decision optimization) and statistics (post-design performance analysis) with a common theme: reliability increase seen from the respon

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Khanh D. Pham

Linear-Quadratic Controls in Risk-Averse Decision Making Performance-Measure Statistics and Control Decision Optimization

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Khanh D. Pham The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate 3550 Aberdeen Ave. S.E. Kirtland Air Force Base New Mexico, USA

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Dedicated to my Wife Huong Nguyen and my Children An and Duc

Preface

When measuring performance reliability, statistical analysis for probabilistic nature of performance uncertainty is relied on as part of the long-range assessment of reliability. Some