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In this paper, a cooperative Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem is investigated for multi-input systems, where each input is generated by an agent in a network. The input matrices are different and locally possessed by the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Peihu Duan , Lidong He , Zhisheng Duan , Ling Shi

This article investigates the core mechanisms of indirect data-driven control for unknown systems, focusing on the application of policy iteration (PI) within the context of the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) optimal control problem.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Bowen Song , Andrea Iannelli

In this paper, we propose and analyze a new method for online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control with a priori unknown time-varying cost matrices. The cost matrices are revealed sequentially with the potential for future values to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Yitian Chen , Timothy L. Molloy , Tyler Summers , Iman Shames

The linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) is an efficient control method for linear and linearized systems. Typically, LQR is implemented in minimal coordinates (also called generalized or "joint" coordinates). However, other coordinates are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Jan Brüdigam , Zachary Manchester

We propose controller synthesis for state regulation problems in which a human operator shares control with an autonomy system, running in parallel. The autonomy system continuously improves over human action, with minimal intervention, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Murad Abu-Khalaf , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

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

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) regulator is a cornerstone of optimal control theory, yet its performance can degrade significantly when the noise distributions deviate from the assumed Gaussian model. To address this limitation, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Riccardo Cescon , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

An optimal control law for networked control systems with a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system as plant and networks between sensor and controller as well as between controller and actuator is proposed. This controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Marijan Palmisano , Martin Steinberger , Martin Horn

The problem of controller reduction has a rich history in control theory. Yet, many questions remain open. In particular, there exist very few results on the order reduction of general non-observer based controllers and the subsequent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Zhaolin Ren , Yang Zheng , Maryam Fazel , Na Li

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 introduces a receding horizon like control scheme for localizable distributed systems, in which the effect of each local disturbance is limited spatially and temporally. We characterize such systems by a set of linear equality…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Yuh-Shyang Wang , Nikolai Matni , John C. Doyle

We explore the infinite-horizon Distributionally Robust (DR) linear-quadratic control. While the probability distribution of disturbances is unknown and potentially correlated over time, it is confined within a Wasserstein-2 ball of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Joudi Hajar , Taylan Kargin , Vikrant Malik , Babak Hassibi

This paper focuses on adaptive control of the discrete-time linear quadratic regulator (adaptive LQR). Recent literature has made significant contributions in proving non-asymptotic convergence rates, but existing approaches have a few…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

This technical report is concerned with the convergence properties of what we call the split optimal policy iteration for coupled LQR problems; see section 3.1 in the manuscript. Interestingly, the iteration shows different convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Péter Koltai

This paper considers the linear-quadratic dual control problem where the system parameters need to be identified and the control objective needs to be optimized in the meantime. Contrary to existing works on data-driven linear-quadratic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-22 Yiwen Lu , Yilin Mo

Optimism in the face of uncertainty is a popular approach to balance exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning. Here, we consider the online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem, i.e., to learn the LQR corresponding to an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Marcell Bartos , Bruce D. Lee , Lenart Treven , Andreas Krause , Florian Dörfler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This paper presents an algorithm to solve the infinite horizon constrained linear quadratic regulator (CLQR) problem using operator splitting methods. First, the CLQR problem is reformulated as a (finite-time) model predictive control (MPC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 L. Ferranti , G. Stathopoulos , C. N. Jones , T. Keviczky

The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) is a cornerstone of optimal control theory, widely studied in both model-based and model-free approaches. Despite its well-established nature, certain foundational aspects remain subtle. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuto Watanabe , Yang Zheng

There has been substantial recent progress on the theoretical understanding of model-free approaches to Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problems. Much attention has been devoted to the special case when the goal is to drive the state close…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Zhaolin Ren , Aoxiao Zhong , Na Li

This paper presents a disturbance-aware framework that embeds robustness into minimum-lap-time trajectory optimization for motorsport. Two formulations are introduced. (i) Open-loop, horizon-based covariance propagation uses worst-case…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Martino Gulisano , Matteo Masoni , Marco Gabiccini , Massimo Guiggiani