A HJB-POD approach for the control of nonlinear PDEs on a tree structure

Abstract

The Dynamic Programming approach allows to compute a feedback control for nonlinear problems, but suffers from the curse of dimensionality. The computation of the control relies on the resolution of a nonlinear PDE, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, with the same dimension of the original problem. Recently, a new numerical method to compute the value function on a tree structure has been introduced. The method allows to work without a structured grid and avoids any interpolation. Here, we aim at testing the algorithm for nonlinear two dimensional PDEs. We apply model order reduction to decrease the computational complexity since the tree structure algorithm requires to solve many PDEs. Furthermore, we prove an error estimate which guarantees the convergence of the proposed method. Finally, we show efficiency of the method through numerical tests