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This article presents a unified approach to quadratic optimal control for both linear and nonlinear discrete-time systems, with a focus on trajectory tracking. The control strategy is based on minimizing a quadratic cost function that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Igor Ladnik

A method is presented for solving the discrete-time finite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem subject to auxiliary linear equality constraints, such as fixed end-point constraints. The method explicitly determines an affine…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Forrest Laine , Claire Tomlin

We study in this paper the linear quadratic optimal control (linear quadratic regulation, LQR for short) for discrete-time complex-valued linear systems, which have shown to have several potential applications in control theory. Firstly, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bin Zhou

A classical approach for solving discrete time nonlinear control on a finite horizon consists in repeatedly minimizing linear quadratic approximations of the original problem around current candidate solutions. While widely popular in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui

This paper discusses discretization methods for implementing nonlinear model predictive controllers using Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (ILQR). Finite-difference approximations are mostly used to derive a discrete-time state equation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Katsuya Shigematsu , Hikaru Hoshino , Eiko Furutani

This paper investigates the performance of Newton's method, iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR), and Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) in solving discrete-time optimal control problems. We offer a unified perspective on these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Abhijeet , Suman Chakravorty

We present a new algorithm for solving linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems with linear equality constraints, also known as constrained LQR (CLQR) problems. Our method's sequential runtime is linear in the number of stages and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 João Sousa-Pinto , Dominique Orban

In this paper, we introduce a reduced order model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) approach, utilizing the Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (ILQR) algorithm for the optimal control of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Aayushman Sharma , Suman Chakravorty

In this paper, discrete linear quadratic regulator (DLQR) and iterative linear quadratic regulator (ILQR) methods based on high-order Runge-Kutta (RK) discretization are proposed for solving linear and nonlinear quadratic optimal control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Zuodi Xie , Tieqiang Gang

This paper presents a constrained iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) framework for nonlinear optimal control problems with box constraints on both states and control inputs. We incorporate logarithmic barrier functions into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Abhijeet , Suman Chakravorty

Trajectory optimization has been used extensively in robotic systems. In particular, iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) has performed well as an off-line planner and online nonlinear model predictive control solver, with a lower…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yunxi Tang , Xiangyu Chu , Wanxin Jin , K. W. Samuel Au

Iterative linear quadradic regulator(iLQR) has become a benchmark method to deal with nonlinear stochastic optimal control problem. However, it does not apply to delay system. In this paper, we extend the iLQR theory and prove new theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Cheng Ju , Yan Qin , Chunjiang Fu

The aim in this paper is to apply the iLQR, iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator, to control the movement of a mobile robot following an already defined trajectory. This control strategy has proven its utility for nonlinear systems. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Ayoub Aaqaoui , Yousif Mohammed Elsheikh Mohammed

This paper introduces a family of iterative algorithms for unconstrained nonlinear optimal control. We generalize the well-known iLQR algorithm to different multiple-shooting variants, combining advantages like straight-forward…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Markus Giftthaler , Michael Neunert , Markus Stäuble , Jonas Buchli , Moritz Diehl

This paper offers a unified perspective on different approaches to the solution of optimal control problems through the lens of constrained sequential quadratic programming. In particular, it allows us to find the relationships between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Abhijeet , Suman Chakravorty

Many problems in robotics involve multiple decision making agents. To operate efficiently in such settings, a robot must reason about the impact of its decisions on the behavior of other agents. Differential games offer an expressive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-19 David Fridovich-Keil , Ellis Ratner , Lasse Peters , Anca D. Dragan , Claire J. Tomlin

This work introduces a novel control strategy called Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator for Iterative Tasks (i2LQR), which aims to improve closed-loop performance with local trajectory optimization for iterative tasks in a dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Yifan Zeng , Suiyi He , Han Hoang Nguyen , Yihan Li , Zhongyu Li , Koushil Sreenath , Jun Zeng

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control of continuous-time system with terminal state constraint. In particular, multiple agents exist in the system which can only access partial information of the matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

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

The closed-loop stability and infinite-horizon performance of receding-horizon approximations are studied for non-stationary linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems. The approach is based on a lifted reformulation of the optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Jintao Sun , Michael Cantoni
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