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The risk-neutral LQR controller is optimal for stochastic linear dynamical systems. However, the classical optimal controller performs inefficiently in the presence of low-probability yet statistically significant (risky) events. The…
In this paper, we formulate a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem. The time-inconsistency arises from the presence of a quadratic term of the expected state as well as a state-dependent term in the…
In this paper, we study a class of stochastic time-inconsistent linear-quadratic (LQ) control problems with control input constraints. These problems are investigated within the more general framework associated with random coefficients.…
In this paper, we study the necessary and sufficient conditions for ensuring the well-posedness of the stochastic singular systems. Moreover, we investigate the stochastic singular linear-quadratic control problems, considering both finite…
This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDE, for short) driven by a Poisson random martingale measure and a Brownian motion.…
The present paper develops an optimal linear quadratic boundary controller for $2\times2$ linear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with actuation on only one end of the domain. First-order necessary conditions for optimality…
In this paper, we extend a classical approach to linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control via Popov operators to abstract linear differential-algebraic equations (ADAEs) in Hilbert spaces. To ensure existence of solutions, we assume that the…
This paper is concerned with linear quadratic optimal control problems for mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (MF-BSDEs, for short) with deterministic coefficients. The optimality system, which is a linear mean-field…
We study in this paper a class of constrained linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem formulations for the scalar-state stochastic system with multiplicative noise, which has various applications, especially in the financial risk…
This paper examines stochastic optimal control problems in which the state is perfectly known, but the controller's measure of time is a stochastic process derived from a strictly increasing L\'evy process. We provide dynamic programming…
Motivated by linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ problems, for short) for mean-field stochastic differential equations (SDEs, for short) with the coefficients containing regime switching governed by a Markov chain, we consider an…
Designing controllers to generate various trajectories has been studied for years, while recently, recovering an optimal controller from trajectories receives increasing attention. In this paper, we reveal that the inherent linear quadratic…
This paper studies uniform stabilization and social optimality for linear quadratic (LQ) mean field control problems with multiplicative noise, where agents are coupled via dynamics and individual costs. The state and control weights in…
This note introduces a new analytic approach to the solution of a very general class of finite-horizon optimal control problems formulated for discrete-time systems. This approach provides a parametric expression for the optimal control…
A discrete-time stochastic LQ problem with multiplicative noises and state transmission delay is studied in this paper, which does not require any definiteness constraint on the cost weighting matrices. From some abstract representations of…
A linear control system with quadratic cost functional over infinite time horizon is considered without assuming controllability/stabilizability condition and the global integrability condition for the nonhomogeneous term of the state…
In this paper, we study non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems with multi-dimensional state and regime switching. We focus on the corresponding stochastic Riccati equation, which is the same as that one in…
This article explores the discrete-time stochastic optimal LQR control with delay and quadratic constraints. The inclusion of delay, compared to delay-free optimal LQR control with quadratic constraints, significantly increases the…
In this paper, we continue our study on a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem originally formulated in [6]. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of…
A novel method of an adaptive linear quadratic (LQ) regulation of uncertain continuous linear time-invariant systems is proposed. Such an approach is based on the direct self-tuning regulators design framework and the exponentially stable…