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This paper addresses the inverse optimal control for the linear quadratic tracking problem with a fixed but unknown target state, which aims to estimate the possible triplets comprising the target state, the state weight matrix, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yao Li , Chengpu Yu , Hao Fang , Jie Chen

In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the algebraic Riccati equation (ARE) with respect to an unknown discrete-time system from the system state and input observation. The inverse optimal control (IOC) problem asks, ``What…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Shuhei Sugiura , Ryo Ariizumi , Masaya Tanemura , Toru Asai , Shun-ichi Azuma

A time-inconsistent optimal control problem is formulated and studied for a controlled linear ordinary differential equation with quadratic cost functional. A notion of equilibrium control is introduced, which can be regarded as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, the solvability of the Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) problem based on two existing minimum principal methods, is analysed. The aim of this work is to answer the question regarding what kinds of trajectories, that is depending…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Afreen Islam , Guido Herrmann , Joaquin Carrasco

Cost functions have the potential to provide compact and understandable generalizations of motion. The goal of Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) is to analyze an observed behavior which is assumed to be optimal with respect to an unknown cost…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 John R. Rebula , Stefan Schaal , James Finley , Ludovic Righetti

A general backward stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem is studied, in which both the state equation and the cost functional contain the nonhomogeneous terms. The main feature of the problem is that the weighting matrices in…

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

This article introduces a numerical algorithm that serves as a preliminary step toward solving continuous-time model predictive control (MPC) problems directly without explicit time-discretization. The chief ingredients of the underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Souvik Das , Siddhartha Ganguly , Muthyala Anjali , Debasish Chatterjee

Inverse optimal control problem emerges in different practical applications, where the goal is to design a cost function in order to approximate given optimal strategies of an expert. Typical application is in robotics for generation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Frédéric Jean , Sofya Maslovskaya

Inverse optimal control (IOC) allows the retrieval of optimal cost function weights, or behavioral parameters, from human motion. The literature on IOC uses methods that are either based on a slow bilevel process or a fast but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Filip Bečanović , Kosta Jovanović , Vincent Bonnet

Achieving optimality in controlling physical systems is a profound challenge across diverse scientific and engineering fields, spanning neuromechanics, biochemistry, autonomous systems, economics, and beyond. Traditional solutions, relying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Tingli Hu , Sami Haddadin

We consider the problem of finite-horizon optimal control design under uncertainty for imperfectly observed discrete-time systems with convex costs and constraints. It is known that this problem can be cast as an infinite-dimensional convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Kevin J. Kircher , K. Max Zhang

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem in a finite time horizon, where the coefficients of the control system are allowed to be random, and the weighting matrices in the cost functional are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong , Jiongmin Yong

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Qi Lü , Bowen Ma

We consider a stochastic control problem which is composed of a controlled stochastic differential equation, and whose associated cost functional is defined through a controlled backward stochastic differential equation. Under appropriate…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-17 Rainer Buckdahn , Boubakeur Labed , Catherine Rainer , Lazhar Tamer

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Andrew Lamperski , Noah J. Cowan

This paper presents a new fast and robust algorithm that provides fuel-optimal impulsive control input sequences that drive a linear time-variant system to a desired state at a specified time. This algorithm is applicable to a broad class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Adam W. Koenig , Simone D'Amico

We consider the problem of estimating the possibly non-convex cost of an agent by observing its interactions with a nonlinear, non-stationary and stochastic environment. For this inverse problem, we give a result that allows to estimate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Émiland Garrabé , Hozefa Jesawada , Carmen Del Vecchio , Giovanni Russo

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

We propose a novel approach for analyzing dynamic regret of first-order constrained online convex optimization algorithms for strongly convex and Lipschitz-smooth objectives. Crucially, we provide a general analysis that is applicable to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Fabian Jakob , Andrea Iannelli

This paper first presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of discrete time, mean-field, stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Then, by introducing several sequences of bounded linear operators, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Robert. J Elliott , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni