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    • Control Theory
    • Nonlinear Systems
    • Adaptive Dynamic Programming

    Background:

    • Traditional optimal control often lacks finite-time convergence guarantees.
    • Achieving both optimality and rapid response in nonlinear systems remains a challenge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a finite-time optimal control (FTOC) strategy for affine-form nonlinear systems.
    • To introduce a novel finite-time adaptive dynamic programming (FTADP) approach for enhanced stability and response time.

    Main Methods:

    • Mapping the value function into finite-time stability space using a transformation function.
    • Deriving the Bellman equation in the finite-time stability space.
    • Solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to present the FTOC strategy.
    • Implementing an adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) algorithm with finite-time critic-actor offline neural network approximation.

    Main Results:

    • A new FTOC strategy with theoretical finite-time stability is presented.
    • The finite-time convergence characteristic of the ADP algorithm is theoretically demonstrated.
    • Application analysis on circuit systems confirms the superiority of the proposed FTADP.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel FTADP method effectively achieves finite-time optimal control for affine-form nonlinear systems.
    • The proposed approach offers significant advantages over general optimal control methods in terms of stability and response time.