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The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem is a classic and widely studied model in optimal control, providing a fundamental framework for designing controllers for linear systems subject to process and observation noises. In recent years,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoran Li , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni , Xuebo Zhang

We consider a discrete-time Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control problem in which Massey's directed information from the observed output of the plant to the control input is minimized while required control performance is attainable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Takashi Tanaka , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Sanjoy K. Mitter

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is concerned with the design of an optimal controller and estimator for linear Gaussian systems with imperfect state information. Standard LQG assumes the set of sensor measurements, to be fed to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Vasileios Tzoumas , Luca Carlone , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

We study communication over control systems, where a controller-encoder selects inputs to a dynamical system in order to simultaneously regulate the system and convey a message to an observer that has access to the system's output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Aharon Rips , Oron Sabag

The linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control paradigm is well-known in literature. The strategy of minimizing the cost function is available, both for the case where the state is known and where it is estimated through an observer. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Hildo Bijl , Thomas B. Schön

We consider event-triggered linear-quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control when sensor updates are transmitted over an i.i.d. packet-erasure channel. Although the optimal controller in a standard LQG setup is available in closed form, choosing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Zahra Hashemi , Dipankar Maity

In networked control systems, often the sensory signals are quantized before being transmitted to the controller. Consequently, performance is affected by the coarseness of this quantization process. Modern communication technologies allow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is a fundamental control paradigm that is studied in various fields such as engineering, computer science, economics, and neuroscience. It involves controlling a system with linear dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Bahar Taşkesen , Dan A. Iancu , Çağıl Koçyiğit , Daniel Kuhn

In this letter, we consider a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control system where feedback occurs over a noiseless binary channel and derive lower bounds on the minimum communication cost (quantified via the channel bitrate) required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Travis C. Cuvelier , Takashi Tanaka , Robert W. Heath

We consider the problem of controlling a linear dynamical system from bilinear observations with minimal quadratic cost. Despite the similarity of this problem to standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control, we show that when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Yahya Sattar , Sunmook Choi , Yassir Jedra , Maryam Fazel , Sarah Dean

In this paper we address the problem of information-constrained optimal control for an interconnected system subject to one-step communication delays and power constraints. The goal is to minimize a finite-horizon quadratic cost by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-21 V. Causevic , P. Ugo Abara , S. Hirche

In this work, we revisit the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) optimal control problem from a behavioral perspective. Motivated by the suitability of behavioral models for data-driven control, we begin with a reformulation of the LQG problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Abed AlRahman Al Makdah , Vishaal Krishnan , Vaibhav Katewa , Fabio Pasqualetti

Consider a control problem with a communication channel connecting the observer of a linear stochastic system to the controller. The goal of the controller is to minimize a quadratic cost function in the state variables and control signal,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

We consider the linear quadratic Gaussian control problem with a discounted cost functional for descriptor systems on the infinite time horizon. Based on recent results from the deterministic framework, we characterize the feasibility of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Hermann Mena , Lena-Maria Pfurtscheller , Matthias Voigt

We study the distributed Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem in discrete-time and finite-horizon, where the controller depends linearly on the history of the outputs and it is required to lie in a given subspace, e.g. to possess…

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

We study the task of learning state representations from potentially high-dimensional observations, with the goal of controlling an unknown partially observable system. We pursue a cost-driven approach, where a dynamic model in some latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yi Tian , Kaiqing Zhang , Russ Tedrake , Suvrit Sra

This letter explores intelligent scheduling of sensor-to-controller communication in networked control systems, particularly when data transmission incurs a cost. While the optimal controller in a standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Zahra Hashemi , Dipankar Maity

In this work, we study an LQG control system where one of two feedback channels is discrete and incurs a communication cost. We assume that a decoder (co-located with the controller) can make noiseless measurements of a subset of the state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Travis C. Cuvelier , Takashi Tanaka

This paper studies implicit communication in linear quadratic Gaussian control systems. We show that the control system itself can serve as an implicit communication channel, enabling the controller to transmit messages through its inputs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gunduz

This paper revisits the classical Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control from a modern optimization perspective. We analyze two aspects of the optimization landscape of the LQG problem: 1) connectivity of the set of stabilizing controllers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yang Zheng , Yujie Tang , Na Li
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