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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…
In networked control systems, communication resource constraints often necessitate the use of \emph{sparse} control input vectors. A prototypical problem is how to ensure controllability of a linear dynamical system when only a limited…
In this paper, we present a new analytical framework for determining the well-posedness of constrained optimization problems that arise in the study of optimal control device design and placement within the context of infinite dimensional…
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…
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This study proposes an efficient Newton-type method for the optimal control of switched systems under a given mode sequence. A mesh-refinement-based approach is utilized to discretize continuous-time optimal control problems (OCPs) and…
A novel method of an adaptive linear quadratic (LQ) regulation of uncertain continuous linear time-invariant systems is proposed. Such an approach is based on the direct self-tuning regulators design framework and the exponentially stable…
We develop data-driven reinforcement learning (RL) control designs for input-affine nonlinear systems. We use Carleman linearization to express the state-space representation of the nonlinear dynamical model in the Carleman space, and…
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…
A novel approach to efficiently treat pure-state equality constraints in optimal control problems (OCPs) using a Riccati recursion algorithm is proposed. The proposed method transforms a pure-state equality constraint into a mixed…