separation theorem

separation theorem

[‚sep·ə′rā·shən ‚thir·əm]

(control systems)

A theorem in optimal control theory which states that the solution to the linear quadratic Gaussian problem separates into the optimal deterministic controller (that is, the optimal controller for the corresponding problem without noise) in which the state used is obtained as the output of an optimal state estimator.

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