DAVIDON METHOD OF SOLUTION OF ALGEBRAIC MATRIX RICCATI EQUATION

An algorithm is presented for solving the algebraic matrix Riccati equation using the Fletcher-Powell reformulation of Davidon's method of function minimization. The function to be minimized, as well as its gradient vector required by the minimization process, are evaluated in closed-form, thereby preserving the simplicity and stability properties of the minimization procedure. The quadratic convergence of the algorithm is not dependent on the initial choice of the approximate solution. © 1969, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.