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The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem is a classic and widely studied model in optimal control, providing a fundamental framework for designing controllers for linear systems subject to process and observation noises. In recent years,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoran Li , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni , Xuebo Zhang

This paper revisits the classical Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control from a modern optimization perspective. We analyze two aspects of the optimization landscape of the LQG problem: 1) connectivity of the set of stabilizing controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yang Zheng , Yujie Tang , Na Li

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is concerned with the design of an optimal controller and estimator for linear Gaussian systems with imperfect state information. Standard LQG assumes the set of sensor measurements, to be fed to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Vasileios Tzoumas , Luca Carlone , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper focuses on the linear quadratic control (LQC) design of systems corrupted by both stochastic noise and bounded noise simultaneously. When only of these noises are considered, the LQC strategy leads to stochastic or robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Xuehui Ma , Shiliang Zhang , Xiaohui Zhang , Jing Xin , Hector Garcia de Marina

This letter explores intelligent scheduling of sensor-to-controller communication in networked control systems, particularly when data transmission incurs a cost. While the optimal controller in a standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Zahra Hashemi , Dipankar Maity

We present a formulation of feedback in quantum systems in which the best estimates of the dynamical variables are obtained continuously from the measurement record, and fed back to control the system. We apply this method to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. Doherty , K. Jacobs

We study the performance of the certainty equivalent controller on Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problems with unknown transition dynamics. We show that for both the fully and partially observed settings, the sub-optimality gap between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Horia Mania , Stephen Tu , Benjamin Recht

The goal of this paper is to study a multi-objective linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem. In particular, we consider an optimal control problem minimizing a quadratic cost over a finite time horizon for linear stochastic systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Donghwan Lee , Do Wan Kim

We present an output feedback stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) approach for linear systems subject to Gaussian disturbances and measurement noise and probabilistic constraints on system states and inputs. The presented approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Simon Muntwiler , Kim P. Wabersich , Robert Miklos , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In networked control systems, often the sensory signals are quantized before being transmitted to the controller. Consequently, performance is affected by the coarseness of this quantization process. Modern communication technologies allow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Finding optimal feedback controllers for nonlinear dynamic systems from data is hard. Recently, Bayesian optimization (BO) has been proposed as a powerful framework for direct controller tuning from experimental trials. For selecting the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Alonso Marco , Philipp Hennig , Stefan Schaal , Sebastian Trimpe

We study the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem, in which the controller's observation of the system state is such that a desired cost is unattainable. To achieve the desired LQG cost, we introduce a communication link from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Oron Sabag , Peida Tian , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

In this paper, we study the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of linear systems with private input and measurement information. The main challenging lies in the unavailability of other regulators' historical input information.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang

This paper studies the linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problem of unknown discrete-time systems via dynamic output feedback learning control. In contrast to the state feedback, the optimality of the dynamic output feedback control for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Kedi Xie , Martin Guay , Shimin Wang , Fang Deng , Maobin Lu

This paper is concerned with constructing an optimal controller in the coherent quantum Linear Quadratic Gaussian problem. A coherent quantum controller is itself a quantum system and is required to be physically realizable. The use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

Understanding the optimization landscape of linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problems is fundamental to the design of efficient reinforcement learning solutions. Recent work has made significant progress in characterizing the landscape of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Jingliang Duan , Jie Li , Yinsong Ma , Liye Tang , Guofa Li , Liping Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li , Lin Zhao

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller is known to be inherently fragile to model misspecifications common in real-world situations. We consider discrete-time partially observable stochastic linear systems and provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Marta Fochesato , Lucia Falconi , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante , John Lygeros

Stochastic control deals with finding an optimal control signal for a dynamical system in a setting with uncertainty, playing a key role in numerous applications. The linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) is a widely-used setting, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Solomon Goldgraber Casspi , Oliver Husser , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger

We consider a joint sensor and controller design problem for linear Gaussian stochastic systems in which a weighted sum of quadratic control cost and the amount of information acquired by the sensor is minimized. This problem formulation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Takashi Tanaka , Henrik Sandberg

We study communication over control systems, where a controller-encoder selects inputs to a dynamical system in order to simultaneously regulate the system and convey a message to an observer that has access to the system's output…

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