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In this paper, we present a novel method for computing the optimal feedback gain of the infinite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem via an ordinary differential equation. We introduce a novel continuous-time Bellman error,…

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Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control is a framework first introduced in control theory that provides an optimal solution to linear problems of regulation in the presence of uncertainty. This framework combines Kalman-Bucy filters for the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-14 Manuel Baltieri , Christopher L. Buckley

This paper is concerned with coherent quantum linear quadratic Gaussian (CQLQG) control. The problem is to find a stabilizing measurement-free quantum controller for a quantum plant so as to minimize a mean square cost for the fully quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Arash Kh. Sichani , Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

In this paper, we investigate a continuous-time linear quadratic control problem for systems with unknown matrices, where only input-output data are available. We propose an output-feedback learning framework based on a canonical nonminimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Weijian Li , Bowen Yi , Panos J. Antsaklis , Hai Lin

Presented is an algorithm to synthesize the optimal infinite-horizon LQR feedback controller for continuous-time systems. The algorithm does not require knowledge of the system dynamics but instead uses only a finite-length sampling of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Sean Bowerfind , Matthew R. Kirchner , Gary Hewer

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

This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic optimal control for a class of singular Volterra integral equations. Under proper convexity conditions, optimal control uniquely exists, and it could be characterized via Frechet derivative of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-17 Shuo Han , Ping Lin , Jiongmin Yong

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 consider the problem of designing a feedback controller which robustly regulates an LTI system to an optimal operating point in the presence of unmeasured disturbances. A general design framework based on so-called optimality models was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 John W. Simpson-Porco

A Linear-quadratic optimal control problem is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with deterministic coefficients. By a variational method, the optimality system is derived, which turns out to be a linear mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-10-10 Jiongmin Yong

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

This paper is concerned with a backward stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with deterministic coefficients. The weighting matrices are allowed to be indefinite, and cross-product terms in the control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Jingrui Sun , Zhen Wu , Jie Xiong

We consider the problem of steering, via output feedback, the state distribution of a discrete-time, linear stochastic system from an initial Gaussian distribution to a terminal Gaussian distribution with prescribed mean and maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Jack Ridderhof , Kazuhide Okamoto , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We study multitask learning for stochastic and partially observed control systems, focusing on the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem. Our goal is to learn a common stabilizing controller that generalizes across a distribution of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Leonardo F. Toso , Kasra Fallah , Charis Stamouli , George J. Pappas , James Anderson

The risk-neutral LQR controller is optimal for stochastic linear dynamical systems. However, the classical optimal controller performs inefficiently in the presence of low-probability yet statistically significant (risky) events. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Masoud Roudneshin , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

This paper examines mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) social optimum control with volatility-uncertain common noise. The diffusion terms in the dynamics of agents contain an unknown volatility process driven by a common noise. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

We consider the problem of finite-horizon optimal control of a discrete linear time-varying system subject to a stochastic disturbance and fully observable state. The initial state of the system is drawn from a known Gaussian distribution,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Maxim Goldshtein , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Two central problems in modern control theory are the controller design problem: which deals with designing a control law for the dynamical system, and the state estimation problem (observer design problem): which deals with computing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Midhun T. Augustine

Presented is an algorithm to synthesize an infinite-horizon LQR optimal feedback controller for continuous-time systems. The algorithm does not require knowledge of the system dynamics, but instead uses only a finite-length sampling of…

The paper is concerned with the coherent quantum Linear Quadratic Gaussian (CQLQG) control problem for time-varying quantum plants governed by linear quantum stochastic differential equations over a bounded time interval. A controller is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen