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This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game with correlated state and observation noises, where the diffusion coefficient does not contain the control variable and the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Yueyang Zheng , Jingtao Shi

In this paper, we study a linear-quadratic partially observed Stackelberg stochastic differential game problem in which a single leader and multiple followers are involved. We consider more practical formulation for partial information that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yichun Li , Yaozhong Hu , Jingtao Shi , Yueyang Zheng

The design of direct data-based controllers has become a fundamental part of control theory research in the last few years. In this paper, we consider three classes of data-based state feedback control problems for linear systems. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

Data-driven control benefits from rich datasets, but constructing such datasets becomes challenging when gathering data is limited. We consider an offline experiment design approach to gathering data where we design a control input to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Sean Anderson , João Pedro Hespanha

We investigate a Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control and sensing co-design problem, where one jointly designs sensing and control policies. We focus on the realistic case where the sensing design is selected among a finite set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Vasileios Tzoumas , Luca Carlone , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper we develop a novel, discrete-time optimal control framework for mechanical systems with uncertain model parameters. We consider finite-horizon problems where the performance index depends on the statistical moments of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-17 George I. Boutselis , Yunpeng Pan , Gerardo De La Tore , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We consider the problem of discounted optimal state-feedback regulation for general unknown deterministic discrete-time systems. It is well known that open-loop instability of systems, non-quadratic cost functions and complex nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Alexandros Tanzanakis , John Lygeros

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

Data-driven predictive control based on the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. is frequently considered for deterministic LTI systems subject to measurement noise. However, little has been done on data-driven stochastic control. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Guanru Pan , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser

The well-posedness of a class of optimal control problems is analysed, where the state equation couples a nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equation with a system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). Such problems naturally arise as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Francesca Anceschi , Giacomo Ascione , Daniele Castorina , Francesco Solombrino

Learning-based control methods for industrial processes leverage the repetitive nature of the underlying process to learn optimal inputs for the system. While many works focus on linear systems, real-world problems involve nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Samuel Balula , Efe C. Balta , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

This paper is concerned with a partially observed hybrid optimal control problem, where continuous dynamics and discrete events coexist and in particular, the continuous dynamics can be observed while the discrete events, described by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Siyu Lv , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

This paper first presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of discrete time, mean-field, stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Then, by introducing several sequences of bounded linear operators, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Robert. J Elliott , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

Predicting outcomes and planning interactions with the physical world are long-standing goals for machine learning. A variety of such tasks involves continuous physical systems, which can be described by partial differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Philipp Holl , Vladlen Koltun , Nils Thuerey

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Fengjiao Liu , George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

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

Solving optimal control problems for transport-dominated partial differential equations (PDEs) can become computationally expensive, especially when dealing with high-dimensional systems. To overcome this challenge, we focus on developing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Tobias Breiten , Shubhaditya Burela , Philipp Schulze

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

In this paper we are interested in a new type of {\it mean-field}, non-Markovian stochastic control problems with partial observations. More precisely, we assume that the coefficients of the controlled dynamics depend not only on the paths…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Rainer Buckdahn , Juan Li , Jin Ma

In this paper, we study the use of state-of-the-art nonlinear system identification techniques for the optimal control of nonlinear systems. We show that the nonlinear systems identification problem is equivalent to estimating the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Aayushman Sharma , Suman Chakravorty