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Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be a data efficient approach for learning control tasks but is difficult to utilize in domains with complex observations such as images. In this paper, we present a method for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Marvin Zhang , Sharad Vikram , Laura Smith , Pieter Abbeel , Matthew J. Johnson , Sergey Levine

Synchronization control of coupled continuous-time linear systems is studied. For identical systems that are stabilizable, a linear feedback law obtained via algebraic Riccati equation is shown to synchronize any fixed directed network of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-23 S. Emre Tuna

We propose a computational framework for replacing the repeated numerical solution of differential Riccati equations in finite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problems by a learned operator surrogate. Instead of solving a nonlinear…

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Lane-free vehicle movement has been recently proposed for connected automated vehicles (CAV) due to various potential advantages. One such advantage stems from the fact that incremental changes of the road width in lane-free traffic lead to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Milad Malekzadeh , Ioannis Papamichail , Markos Papageorgiou

We investigate the discrete-time stochastic linear quadratic control problem for a population of cooperative agents under the hard equality constraint on total control inputs, motivated by demand response in renewable energy systems. We…

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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

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Chendi Qu , Jianping He , Xiaoming Duan

Despite decades of research and recent progress in adaptive control and reinforcement learning, there remains a fundamental lack of understanding in designing controllers that provide robustness to inherent non-asymptotic uncertainties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Benjamin Gravell , Tyler Summers

In this paper, we propose a fast reinforcement learning (RL) control algorithm that enables online control of large-scale networked dynamic systems. RL is an effective way of designing model-free linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Tomonori Sadamoto , Aranya Chakrabortty , Jun-ichi Imura

Linear Quadratic Regulators (LQR) achieve enormous successful real-world applications. Very recently, people have been focusing on efficient learning algorithms for LQRs when their dynamics are unknown. Existing results effectively learn to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tianyu Wang , Lin F. Yang

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

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…

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A method is presented for parallelizing the computation of solutions to discrete-time, linear-quadratic, finite-horizon optimal control problems, which we will refer to as LQR problems. This class of problem arises frequently in robotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Forrest Laine , Claire Tomlin

Traditional control theory-based methods require tailored engineering for each system and constant fine-tuning. In power plant control, one often needs to obtain a precise representation of the system dynamics and carefully design the…

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We present a data-driven method for solving the linear quadratic regulator problem for systems with multiplicative disturbances, the distribution of which is only known through sample estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Peter Coppens , Mathijs Schuurmans , Panagiotis Patrinos

The linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem is a cornerstone of automatic control, and it has been widely studied in the data-driven setting. The various data-driven approaches can be classified as indirect (i.e., based on an identified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Florian Dörfler , Pietro Tesi , Claudio De Persis

This paper proposes an on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) control algorithm that solves the optimal regulation problem for a class of uncertain continuous-time nonlinear systems under user-defined state constraints. We formulate the safe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Soutrik Bandyopadhyay , Shubhendu Bhasin

Consider a discrete-time Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem solved using policy gradient descent when the system matrices are unknown. The gradient is transmitted across a noisy channel over a finite time horizon using analog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Ashwin Verma , Aritra Mitra , Lintao Ye , Vijay Gupta

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Bingchang Wang , Huanshui Zhang

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) for linear systems seeks a cost function whose optimal controller reproduces an expert policy from data. Existing data-driven methods for discrete-time linear systems are largely built on iterative…

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