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Linear time-varying (LTV) systems are widely used for modeling real-world dynamical systems due to their generality and simplicity. Providing stability guarantees for LTV systems is one of the central problems in control theory. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Guannan Qu , Yuanyuan Shi , Sahin Lale , Anima Anandkumar , Adam Wierman

This paper considers a strongly connected network of agents, each capable of partially observing and controlling a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is jointly observable and controllable. Additionally, agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Camilla Fioravanti , Evagoras Makridis , Gabriele Oliva , Maria Vrakopoulou , Themistoklis Charalambous

Recent advancement in online optimization and control has provided novel tools to study online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problems, where cost matrices are time-varying and unknown in advance. In this work, we study the online linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

We study online linear-quadratic regulation (LQR) with unknown dynamics under communication rate constraints. Classical networked control quantizes the plant state at every time step, requiring $O(T)$ total bits while injecting persistent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Barron Han , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

We study the problem of adaptive control of a high dimensional linear quadratic (LQ) system. Previous work established the asymptotic convergence to an optimal controller for various adaptive control schemes. More recently, for the average…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-26 Morteza Ibrahimi , Adel Javanmard , Benjamin Van Roy

This paper studies distributed Q-learning for Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) in a multi-agent network. The existing results often assume that agents can observe the global system state, which may be infeasible in large-scale systems due…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Hang Wang , Sen Lin , Hamid Jafarkhani , Junshan Zhang

This paper studies a discrete-time stochastic control problem with linear quadratic criteria over an infinite-time horizon. We focus on a class of control systems whose system matrices are associated with random parameters involving unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Xun Li

Distributed optimal control is known to be challenging and can become intractable even for linear-quadratic regulator problems. In this work, we study a special class of such problems where distributed state feedback controllers can give…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Johan Olsson , Runyu Zhang , Emma Tegling , Na Li

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

Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) and Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control are foundational and extensively researched problems in optimal control. We investigate LQR and LQG problems with semi-adversarial perturbations and time-varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Y. Jennifer Sun , Stephen Newman , Elad Hazan

We consider the problem of controlling an unknown linear time-invariant dynamical system from a single chain of black-box interactions, with no access to resets or offline simulation. Under the assumption that the system is controllable, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan

A gradient-based method is proposed for solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem for linear systems with nonlinear dependence on time-invariant probabilistic parametric uncertainties. The approach explicitly accounts for model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Leilei Cui , Richard D. Braatz

We study the problem of adaptive control of the stochastic linear quadratic regulator (LQR) with constraints that must be satisfied at every time step. Prior work on the multidimensional problem has shown $\tilde{O}(T^{2/3})$ regret and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Spencer Hutchinson , Nanfei Jiang , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

This paper presents a sample-efficient, data-driven control framework for finite-horizon linear quadratic (LQ) control of linear time-varying (LTV) systems. In contrast to the time-invariant case, the time-varying LQ problem involves a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Sahel Vahedi Noori , Maryam Babazadeh

We study model-free learning methods for the output-feedback Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problem in finite-horizon subject to subspace constraints on the control policy. Subspace constraints naturally arise in the field of distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Luca Furieri , Yang Zheng , Maryam Kamgarpour

Control of large-scale networked systems often necessitates the availability of complex models for the interactions amongst the agents. However in many applications, building accurate models of agents or interactions amongst them might be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Siavash Alemzadeh , Mehran Mesbahi

We consider distributed online convex optimization problems, where the distributed system consists of various computing units connected through a time-varying communication graph. In each time step, each computing unit selects a constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Deming Yuan , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic optimal control of discrete-time time-varying system with terminal state constraint. The main contribution is to propose a Q-learning algorithm for the optimal controller when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Juanjuan Xu , Jingmei Liu , Zhaorong Zhang , Wei Wang

We study the problem of adaptive control of the linear quadratic regulator for systems in very high, or even infinite dimension. We demonstrate that while sublinear regret requires finite dimensional inputs, the ambient state dimension of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Juan C. Perdomo , Max Simchowitz , Alekh Agarwal , Peter Bartlett

This paper investigates the problem of regret minimization in linear time-varying (LTV) dynamical systems. Due to the simultaneous presence of uncertainty and non-stationarity, designing online control algorithms for unknown LTV systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuzhen Han , Ruben Solozabal , Jing Dong , Xingyu Zhou , Martin Takac , Bin Gu