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This paper studies the robustness of reinforcement learning algorithms to errors in the learning process. Specifically, we revisit the benchmark problem of discrete-time linear quadratic regulation (LQR) and study the long-standing open…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Bo Pang , Zhong-Ping Jiang

This paper revisits and extends the convergence and robustness properties of value and policy iteration algorithms for discrete-time linear quadratic regulator problems. In the model-based case, we extend current results concerning the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Bowen Song , Chenxuan Wu , Andrea Iannelli

Policy optimization has drawn increasing attention in reinforcement learning, particularly in the context of derivative-free methods for linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problems with unknown dynamics. This paper focuses on characterizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Weijian Li , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

The linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem has reemerged as an important theoretical benchmark for reinforcement learning-based control of complex dynamical systems with continuous state and action spaces. In contrast with nearly all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Benjamin Gravell , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Tyler Summers

We explore reinforcement learning methods for finding the optimal policy in the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem. In particular, we consider the convergence of policy gradient methods in the setting of known and unknown parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ben Hambly , Renyuan Xu , Huining Yang

Linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is one of the most popular frameworks to tackle continuous Markov decision process tasks. With its fundamental theory and tractable optimal policy, LQR has been revisited and analyzed in recent years, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Youngsuk Park , Ryan A. Rossi , Zheng Wen , Gang Wu , Handong Zhao

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

In this paper, an off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm is designed to solve the continuous-time LQR problem using only input-state data measured from the system. Different from other algorithms in the literature, we propose the use…

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

In this article, we study a continuous-time stochastic $H_\infty$ control problem based on reinforcement learning (RL) techniques that can be viewed as solving a stochastic linear-quadratic two-person zero-sum differential game (LQZSG).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Zhongshi Sun , Guangyan Jia

In this paper, we address Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problems through a novel iterative algorithm named EXtremum-seeking Policy iteration LQR (EXP-LQR). The peculiarity of EXP-LQR is that it only needs access to a truncated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Guido Carnevale , Nicola Mimmo , Giuseppe Notarstefano

This paper considers a stochastic linear quadratic problem for discrete-time systems with multiplicative noises over an infinite horizon. To obtain the optimal solution, we propose an online iterative algorithm of reinforcement learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Hongdan Li , Lucky Qiaofeng Li , Xun Li , Zhaorong Zhang

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

This paper presents a one-shot learning approach with performance and robustness guarantees for the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control of stochastic linear systems. Even though data-based LQR control has been widely considered,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ramin Esmzad , Hamidreza Modares

Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) design is one of the most classical optimal control problems, whose well-known solution is an input sequence expressed as a state-feedback. In this work, finite-horizon and discrete-time LQR is solved under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Anna Scampicchio , Aleksandr Aravkin , Gianluigi Pillonetto

This technical report is concerned with the convergence properties of what we call the split optimal policy iteration for coupled LQR problems; see section 3.1 in the manuscript. Interestingly, the iteration shows different convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Péter Koltai

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

We consider adaptive control of the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), where an unknown linear system is controlled subject to quadratic costs. Leveraging recent developments in the estimation of linear systems and in robust controller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Sarah Dean , Horia Mania , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht , Stephen Tu

Recent developments in cyber-physical systems and event-triggered control have led to an increased interest in the impact of sparse disturbances on dynamical processes. We study Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control under sparse…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Samuel Pfrommer , Somayeh Sojoudi

The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) framework considers the problem of regulating a linear dynamical system perturbed by environmental noise. We compute the policy regret between three distinct control policies: i) the optimal online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Gautam Goel , Babak Hassibi

We consider the continuous-time Linear-Quadratic-Regulator (LQR) problem in terms of optimizing a real-valued matrix function over the set of feedback gains. The results developed are in parallel to those in Bu et al. [1] for discrete-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Jingjing Bu , Afshin Mesbahi , Mehran Mesbahi
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