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The paper establishes the exponential turnpike property for a class of mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems with periodic coefficients. It first introduces the concepts of stability, stabilizability, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Jingrui Sun , Lvning Yuan , Jiaqi Zhang

An optimal control problem is considered for linear stochastic differential equations with quadratic cost functional. The coefficients of the state equation and the weights in the cost functional are bounded operators on the spaces of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong , Zhiyong Yu

In most real cases transition probabilities between operational modes of Markov jump linear systems cannot be computed exactly and are time-varying. We take into account this aspect by considering Markov jump linear systems where the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Y. Zacchia Lun , A. Abate , A. D'Innocenzo

This paper presents a novel value iteration (VI) algorithm for finding the optimal control for a kind of infinite-horizon stochastic linear quadratic (SLQ) problem with unknown systems. First, an off-line algorithm is estabilished to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Guangchen Wang , Heng Zhang

This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic (LQ) leader-follower differential game with mixed deterministic and stochastic controls. In the game, the follower is a random controller which means that the follower can choose adapted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Jingtao Shi , Guangchen Wang

We propose a simple and original approach for solving linear-quadratic mean-field stochastic control problems. We study both finite-horizon and infinite-horizon pro\-blems, and allow notably some coefficients to be stochastic. Extension to…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Matteo Basei , Huyên Pham

This article presents a method to automatically generate energy-optimal trajectories for systems with linear dynamics, linear constraints, and a quadratic cost functional (LQ systems). First, using recent advancements in optimal control, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Logan E. Beaver

This paper investigates a multidimensional non-homogeneous stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem featuring random coefficients and a terminal mean-field term in the cost functional, enabling its direct application to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Guojiang Shao , Zuo Quan Xu , Qi Zhang

This paper presents a sample-efficient, data-driven control framework for finite-horizon linear quadratic (LQ) control of linear time-varying (LTV) systems. In contrast to the time-invariant case, the time-varying LQ problem involves a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Sahel Vahedi Noori , Maryam Babazadeh

We deduce a sufficient condition of the exponential (integral) turnpike property for infinite dimensional generalized linear-quadratic optimal control problems in terms of structural properties of the control system, such as exponential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Zhuqing Li , Roberto Guglielmi

This paper addresses the optimal control problem known as the Linear Quadratic Regulator in the case when the dynamics are unknown. We propose a multi-stage procedure, called Coarse-ID control, that estimates a model from a few experimental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Sarah Dean , Horia Mania , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht , Stephen Tu

This paper investigates a conditional mean-field type linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem with partial observation and regime switching, where the conditional expectations of the state and control given the history of Markov chain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Zhongbin Guo , Guangchen Wang

The long time behavior and detailed convergence analysis of Langevin equations has received increased attention over the last years. Difficulties arise from a lack of coercivity, usually termed hypocoercivity, of the underlying kinetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

The present work deals with quantitative two-phase reach-avoid problems on nonlinear control systems. This class of optimal control problem requires the plant's state to visit two (rather than one) target sets in succession while minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Alexander Weber , Alexander Knoll

We investigate the asymptotic properties of a finite-time horizon linear-quadratic optimal control problem driven by a multiscale stochastic process with multiplicative Brownian noise. We approach the problem by considering the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Beniamin Goldys , Gianmario Tessitore , James Yang , Zhou Zhou

Recent strides in nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) underscore a dependence on numerical advancements to efficiently and accurately solve large-scale problems. Given the substantial number of variables characterizing typical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wilson Jallet , Ewen Dantec , Etienne Arlaud , Justin Carpentier , Nicolas Mansard

This paper is concerned with an elliptic optimal control problem with total variation (TV) restriction on the control in the constraints. We introduce a regularized optimal control problem by applying a quadratic regularization of the dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Christian Meyer , Annika Schiemann

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a powerful technique for high performance tracking in the presence of modeling errors for optimal control applications. There is extensive prior work showing its empirical effectiveness in applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Anirudh Vemula , Wen Sun , Maxim Likhachev , J. Andrew Bagnell

This paper investigates the stochastic linear-quadratic control problems with affine constraints, in which both equality and inequality constraints are involved. With the help of the Pontryagin maximum principle and Lagrangian duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang , Xian-jun Long , Jian-hao Kang