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This work theoretically studies a ubiquitous reinforcement learning policy for controlling the canonical model of continuous-time stochastic linear-quadratic systems. We show that randomized certainty equivalent policy addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh

Irregular linear quadratic control (LQ, was called Singular LQ) has been a long-standing problem since 1970s. This paper will show that an irregular LQ control (deterministic) is solvable (for arbitrary initial value) if and only if the LQ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Huanshui Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

This paper studies the data-driven synthesis of linear quadratic integral (LQI) controllers for continuous-time systems. The objective is to achieve optimal state-feedback control with integral action for reference tracking using only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Armin Gießler , Pol Jané-Soneira , Sören Hohmann

The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) is a cornerstone of optimal control theory, widely studied in both model-based and model-free approaches. Despite its well-established nature, certain foundational aspects remain subtle. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuto Watanabe , Yang Zheng

We consider the Linear-Quadratic-Regulator (LQR) problem in terms of optimizing a real-valued matrix function over the set of feedback gains. Such a setup facilitates examining the implications of a natural initial-state independent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-31 Jingjing Bu , Afshin Mesbahi , Maryam Fazel , Mehran Mesbahi

This paper studies a class of continuous-time scalar-state stochastic Linear-Quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem with the linear control constraints. Applying the state separation theorem induced from its special structure, we develop…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-12 Weiping Wu , Jianjun Gao , Junguo Lu , Xun Li

This paper applies a reinforcement learning (RL) method to solve infinite horizon continuous-time stochastic linear quadratic problems, where drift and diffusion terms in the dynamics may depend on both the state and control. Based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Na Li , Xun Li , Jing Peng , Zuo Quan Xu

We consider the problem of controlling a known linear dynamical system under stochastic noise, adversarially chosen costs, and bandit feedback. Unlike the full feedback setting where the entire cost function is revealed after each decision,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Asaf Cassel , Tomer Koren

Linear-Quadratic (LQ) problems that arise in systems and controls include the classical optimal control problems of the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) in both its deterministic and stochastic forms, as well as $H^\infty$-analysis (the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Bassam Bamieh

We describe an optimal adversarial attack formulation against autoregressive time series forecast using Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR). In this threat model, the environment evolves according to a dynamical system; an autoregressive model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yiding Chen , Xiaojin Zhu

Linear dynamical systems that obey stochastic differential equations are canonical models. While optimal control of known systems has a rich literature, the problem is technically hard under model uncertainty and there are hardly any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh

This paper introduces and analyzes an improved Q-learning algorithm for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The proposed method does not require any knowledge of the system dynamics, and it enjoys significant efficiency advantages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Victor G. Lopez , Mohammad Alsalti , Matthias A. Müller

In this paper, we study the problem of regret minimization in reinforcement learning (RL) under differential privacy constraints. This work is motivated by the wide range of RL applications for providing personalized service, where privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou , Ness Shroff

We consider a networked control system where a linear time-invariant (LTI) plant, subject to a stochastic disturbance, is controlled over a communication channel with colored noise and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) constraint. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-04-02 Erik Johannesson , Anders Rantzer , Bo Bernhardsson

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

As it is popular known, Riccati equation is the key basic tool for optimal control in the modern control theory. The solvability conditions of optimal control, stabilization conditions and controller design are all based on the Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Huanshui Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

This paper studies the online optimal control problem with time-varying convex stage costs for a time-invariant linear dynamical system, where a finite lookahead window of accurate predictions of the stage costs are available at each time.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Yingying Li , Xin Chen , Na Li

The continuous and discrete time Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) theory has been used in this paper for the design of optimal analog and discrete PID controllers respectively. The PID controller gains are formulated as the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-18 Saptarshi Das , Indranil Pan , Kaushik Halder , Shantanu Das , Amitava Gupta

We present an optimisation-based method for synthesising a dynamic regret optimal controller for linear systems with potentially adversarial disturbances and known or adversarial initial conditions. The dynamic regret is defined as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Alexandre Didier , Jerome Sieber , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This paper studies a continuous-time stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ) optimal control problem on infinite-horizon. A data-driven policy iteration algorithm is proposed to solve the SLQ problem. Without knowing three system coefficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Heng Zhang , Na Li