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We consider the problem of learning a linear control policy for a linear dynamical system, from demonstrations of an expert regulating the system. The standard approach to this problem is policy fitting, which fits a linear policy by…

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This paper is concerned with the problem of Model Predictive Control and Rolling Horizon Control of discrete-time systems subject to possibly unbounded random noise inputs, while satisfying hard bounds on the control inputs. We use a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Peter Hokayem , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

This work addresses the finite-horizon robust covariance control problem for discrete-time, partially observable, linear system affected by random zero mean noise and deterministic but unknown disturbances restricted to lie in what is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Georgios Kotsalis , Guanghui Lan , Arkadi Nemirovski

We design receding horizon control strategies for stochastic discrete-time linear systems with additive (possibly) unbounded disturbances, while obeying hard bounds on the control inputs. We pose the problem of selecting an appropriate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Debasish Chatterjee , Peter Hokayem , John Lygeros

In this paper, we present an equivalent convex optimization formulation for discrete-time stochastic linear systems subject to linear chance constraints, alongside a tight convex relaxation for quadratic chance constraints. By lifting the…

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We propose a certainty-equivalence scheme for adaptive control of scalar linear systems subject to additive, i.i.d. Gaussian disturbances and bounded control input constraints, without requiring prior knowledge of the bounds of the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Seth Siriya , Jingge Zhu , Dragan Nešić , Ye Pu

In this paper, we study the finite-horizon optimal density steering problem for discrete-time stochastic linear dynamical systems. Specifically, we focus on steering probability densities represented as Gaussian mixture models which are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

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.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

Stochastic optimal control problems with constraints on the probability distribution of the final output are considered. Necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a coupled system of partial differential equations involving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Samuel Daudin

We consider the problem of stochastic optimal control in the presence of an unknown disturbance. We characterize the disturbance via empirical characteristic functions, and employ a chance constrained approach. By exploiting properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We consider the static output feedback control for Linear Quadratic Regulator problems with structured constraints under the assumption that system parameters are unknown. To solve the problem in the model free setting, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Shokichi Takakura , Kazuhiro Sato

State estimation is critical to control systems, especially when the states cannot be directly measured. This paper presents an approximate optimal filter, which enables to use policy iteration technique to obtain the steady-state gain in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Kaiming Tang , Shengbo Eben Li , Yuming Yin , Yang Guan , Jingliang Duan , Wenhan Cao , Jie Li

Covariance steering (CS) synthesizes a control policy which drives the state's mean and covariance matrix towards desired values. Offering tractable computation of a closed-loop policy which can obey chance constraints in uncertain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Naoya Kumagai , Kenshiro Oguri

We consider stochastic model predictive control of a multi-agent systems with constraints on the probabilities of inter-agent collisions. We first study a sample-based approximation of the collision probabilities and use this approximation…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Daniel Lyons , Jan-P. Calliess , Uwe D. Hanebeck

This article explores the estimation of parameters and states for linear stochastic systems with deterministic control inputs. It introduces a novel Kalman filtering approach called Kalman Filtering with Correlated Noises Recursive…

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We study a finite-horizon covariance steering problem for discrete-time Markov jump linear systems (MJLS) with both state- and control-dependent multiplicative noise. The objective is to minimize a quadratic running cost while steering the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Fangji Wang , Siddhartha Ganguly , Panagiotis Tsiotras

For quantum systems with linear dynamics in phase space much of classical feedback control theory applies. However, there are some questions that are sensible only for the quantum case, such as: given a fixed interaction between the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. M . Wiseman , A. C. Doherty

This paper presents a novel algorithm for solving distribution steering problems featuring nonlinear dynamics and chance constraints. Covariance steering (CS) is an emerging methodology in stochastic optimal control that poses constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Akash Ratheesh , Vincent Pacelli , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In this paper we provide direct data-driven expressions for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), the Kalman filter, and the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller using a finite dataset of noisy input, state, and output trajectories.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Abed AlRahman Al Makdah , Fabio Pasqualetti

In this paper, a new approach based on convex analysis is introduced to solve the $H_\infty$ problem for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems. A stochastic version of bounded real lemma is proved and the state feedback $H_\infty$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Xiangyun Lin , Tianliang Zhang , Weihai Zhang , Bor-Sen Chen