PROBABILISTIC AND GUARANTEED CONTROL .2. PROBABILISTIC PLAN

Given a known perturbation, distribution function, a problem is formal ized for constructing a plan which enables the conditions of admissibi lity and optimality to be fulfilled with the desired probability after on-line correction of the plan according to the current information o n the perturbations. This problem of probabilistic planning and the pr eviously examined problem of guaranteed planning [1] are reduced to a fern convenient for their comparison. In the general case, properties of the predominance of probabilistic plans as opposed to guaranteed pl ans are established. An illustrative example is given to demonstrate t he agreement between the results of guaranteed planning and those of p robabilistic planning in the case of unit reliability of the latter pl anning.