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We present a model-based globally convergent policy gradient method (PGM) for linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control. Firstly, we establish equivalence between optimizing dynamic output feedback controllers and designing a static feedback…
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Feedback optimization is a control paradigm that enables physical systems to autonomously reach efficient operating points. Its central idea is to interconnect optimization iterations in closed-loop with the physical plant. Since iterative…
While the optimization landscape of policy gradient methods has been recently investigated for partially observed linear systems in terms of both static output feedback and dynamical controllers, they only provide convergence guarantees to…
We consider the static output feedback control for Linear Quadratic Regulator problems with structured constraints under the assumption that system parameters are unknown. To solve the problem in the model free setting, we propose the…
From the perspective of control theory, the gradient descent optimization methods can be regarded as a dynamic system where various control techniques can be designed to enhance the performance of the optimization method. In this paper, we…
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A controller design technique for shaping the frequency response of a process is described. A general linear model (GLM) is used to define the form of a lag or lead compensator in discrete time using a prescribed set of basis functions. The…
By optimizing the predicted performance over a receding horizon, model predictive control (MPC) provides the ability to enforce state and control constraints. The present paper considers an extension of MPC for nonlinear systems that can be…
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Feedback optimization enables autonomous optimality seeking of a dynamical system through its closed-loop interconnection with iterative optimization algorithms. Among various iteration structures, model-based approaches require the…
Model-free learning-based control methods have seen great success recently. However, such methods typically suffer from poor sample complexity and limited convergence guarantees. This is in sharp contrast to classical model-based control,…
This paper proposes a data-driven state feedback controller that enables reference tracking for nonlinear discrete-time systems. The controller is designed based on the identified inverse model of the system and a given reference model,…
We propose a new matrix pencil based approach for design of state-feedback and output-feedback stabilizing controllers for a general class of uncertain nonlinear strict-feedback-like systems. While the dynamic controller structure is based…
In this work, we adopt the Gradient Projection Method (GPM) to problems of quantum control. For general $N$-level closed and open quantum systems, we derive the corresponding adjoint systems and gradients of the objective functionals, and…
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