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In this paper, we continue our study on a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem originally formulated in [6]. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-27 Ying Hu , Hanqing Jin , Xun Yu Zhou

This article presents a novel class of control policies for networked control of Lyapunov-stable linear systems with bounded inputs. The control channel is assumed to have i.i.d. Bernoulli packet dropouts and the system is assumed to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Prabhat K. Mishra , Debasish Chatterjee , Daniel E. Quevedo

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

We study the problem of \textit{safe control of linear dynamical systems corrupted with non-stochastic noise}, and provide an algorithm that guarantees (i) zero constraint violation of convex time-varying constraints, and (ii) bounded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Hongyu Zhou , Vasileios Tzoumas

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

This paper is concerned with a kind of linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with partial information. The cost functional includes cross terms between the state and control, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Jialong Li , Zhiyong Yu , Wanying Yue

The standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) framework assumes a Brownian noise process and relies on classical stochastic calculus tools, such as those based on It\^o calculus. In this paper, we solve a generalized linear quadratic optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Mostafa M. Shibl , Sharan Srinivasan , Harsha Honnappa , Vijay Gupta

Standard model-based control design deteriorates when the system dynamics change during operation. To overcome this challenge, online and adaptive methods have been proposed in the literature. In this work, we consider the class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Marcell Bartos , Johannes Köhler , Florian Dörfler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

A mixed linear quadratic (MLQ, for short) optimal control problem is considered. The controlled stochastic system consists of two diffusion processes which are in different time horizons. There are two control actions: a standard control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-05 Jianhui Huang , Xun Li , Jiongmin Yong

This paper presents a novel direct data-driven control framework for solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) under disturbances and noisy state measurements. The system dynamics are assumed unknown, and the LQR solution is learned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Ramin Esmzad , Gokul S. Sankar , Teawon Han , Hamidreza Modares

This study addresses limited attention allocation in a stochastic linear quadratic system with multiplicative noise. Our approach enables strategic resource allocation to enhance noise estimation and improve control decisions. We provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Xiangyu Cui , Jianjun Gao , Lingjie Kong

Consider a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem being solved in a model-free manner using the policy gradient approach. If the gradient of the quadratic cost is being transmitted across a rate-limited channel, both the convergence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Lintao Ye , Aritra Mitra , Vijay Gupta

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

We propose a two-phase risk-averse architecture for controlling stochastic nonlinear robotic systems. We present Risk-Averse Nonlinear Steering RRT* (RANS-RRT*) as an RRT* variant that incorporates nonlinear dynamics by solving a nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sleiman Safaoui , Benjamin J. Gravell , Venkatraman Renganathan , Tyler H. Summers

This paper investigates a conditional mean-field type linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem with partial observation and regime switching, where the conditional expectations of the state and control given the history of Markov chain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Zhongbin Guo , Guangchen Wang

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

In this article, we consider a stochastic linear quadratic control problem with partial observation. A near optimal control in the weak formulation is characterized. The main features of this paper are the presence of the control in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jingrui Sun , Jiaqiang Wen , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

This paper is concerned with a class of linear-quadratic stochastic large-population problems with partial information, where the individual agent only has access to a noisy observation process related to the state. The dynamics of each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Min Li , Na Li , Zhen Wu

The paper studies a class of quadratic optimal control problems for partially observable linear dynamical systems. In contrast to the full information case, the control is required to be adapted to the filtration generated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

Recent literature has made much progress in understanding \emph{online LQR}: a modern learning-theoretic take on the classical control problem in which a learner attempts to optimally control an unknown linear dynamical system with fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Max Simchowitz