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This paper studies the finite-horizon linear quadratic regulation problem where the dynamics of the system are assumed to be unknown and the state is accessible. Information on the system is given by a finite set of input-state data, where…
With the outstanding performance of policy gradient (PG) method in the reinforcement learning field, the convergence theory of it has aroused more and more interest recently. Meanwhile, the significant importance and abundant theoretical…
Linear-quadratic optimal control problem for systems governed by forward-backward stochastic differential equations has been extensively studied over the past three decades. Recent research has revealed that for forward-backward control…
A linear quadratic optimal stochastic control problem with random coefficients and indefinite state/control weight costs is usually linked to an indefinite stochastic Riccati equation (SRE) which is a matrix-valued quadratic backward…
This paper studies the robustness of policy iteration in the context of continuous-time infinite-horizon linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problem. It is shown that Kleinman's policy iteration algorithm is inherently robust to small…
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…
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…
This paper investigates a zero-sum stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ, for short) Stackelberg differential game problem, where the coefficients of the state equation and the weighting matrices in the performance functional are regulated by a…
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…
In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…
This paper is concerned with a discrete-time mean-field stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem arose from financial application. Through matrix dynamical optimization method, a group of linear feedback controls is investigated.…
This paper presents a data-driven solution to the discrete-time infinite horizon LQR problem. The state feedback gain is computed directly from a batch of input and state data collected from the plant. Simulation examples illustrate the…
In this paper, our goal is to study fundamental foundations of linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problems for stochastic linear time-invariant systems via Lagrangian duality of semidefinite programming (SDP) problems. In particular,…
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that the continuous-time generalised Riccati equation plays within the context of singular linear-quadratic optimal control. This equation has been defined following the analogy with the…
This paper focuses on indefinite stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic (MF-LQ, for short) optimal control problems, which allow the weighting matrices for state and control in the cost functional to be indefinite. The solvability of…
In this paper, the solvability of discrete-time stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem in finite horizon is considered. Firstly, it shows that the closed-loop solvability for the LQ control problem is optimal if and only…
We study the time-inconsistent linear quadratic optimal control problem for forward-backward stochastic differential equations with potentially indefinite cost weighting matrices for both the state and the control variables. Our research…
Linear-Quadratic (LQ) problems that arise in systems and controls include the classical optimal control problems of the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) in both its deterministic and stochastic forms, as well as $H^\infty$-analysis (the…
We consider the infinite dimensional linear programming (inf-LP) approach for solving stochastic control problems. The inf-LP corresponding to problems with uncountable state and input spaces is in general computationally intractable. By…
This paper examines stochastic optimal control problems in which the state is perfectly known, but the controller's measure of time is a stochastic process derived from a strictly increasing L\'evy process. We provide dynamic programming…