Stannat W, Vogler A, Wessels L
Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 686 Cherry Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0160, USA.
Chaos. 2023 Sep 1;33(9). doi: 10.1063/5.0143939.
We present a numerical algorithm that allows the approximation of optimal controls for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with additive noise by first reducing the problem to controls of feedback form and then approximating the feedback function using finitely based approximations. Using structural assumptions on the finitely based approximations, rates for the approximation error of the cost can be obtained. Our algorithm significantly reduces the computational complexity of finding controls with asymptotically optimal cost. Numerical experiments using artificial neural networks as well as radial basis function networks illustrate the performance of our algorithm. Our approach can also be applied to stochastic control problems for high dimensional stochastic differential equations and more general stochastic partial differential equations.
