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A linear quadratic regulator for nonlinear SIRC epidemic model

Abstract

The control of an epidemic disease consists in introducing the strategies able to reduce the number of infected subjects by means of medication/quarantine actions, and the number of the subjects that could catch the disease through an informative campaign and, when available, a vaccination strategy. Some diseases, like the influenza, do not guarantee immunity; therefore, the subjects could get ill again by different strain of the same viral subtype. The epidemic model adopted in this paper introduces the cross-immune individuals; it is known in literature as SIRC model, since the classes of susceptible (S), infected (I), removed (R) and cross-immune (C) subjects are considered. Its control is herein determined in the framework of the linear quadratic regulator, by applying to the original nonlinear model the optimal control found on the linearized system. The results appear satisfactory, and the drawback of using a control law based on the linear approximation of the system is compensated by the advantages arising from such a solution: no costate equations to be solved and a solution depending on the current state evolution which allows a feedback implementation

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