Controllability and Insensitizing Controls for Some Coupled Stochastic Parabolic Systems

Abstract: In this paper, we study the null and approximate controllability, along with the existence of insensitizing controls, for a class of coupled systems described by two linear forward stochastic parabolic equations. The first objective is to identify controls that achieve the null and approximate controllability for these systems at a fixed final control time. The second goal is to find controls such that a functional of the states becomes locally insensitive to perturbations in the initial data. To achieve this, we introduce three controls: one localized in space to affect the drift term of the first equation, and two additional controls that influence the diffusion terms of both equations. Moreover, we reduce the insensitizing control problem to a null controllability problem for a cascade system of coupled forward-backward stochastic parabolic systems. By the classical duality argument, our controllability problem for the forward system (resp., forward-backward systems) is equivalent to an observability problem for the corresponding adjoint backward system (resp., backward-forward systems). The observability problems are then addressed by deriving new global Carleman estimates.