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This paper presents a pioneering approach to solving the linear quadratic regulation (LQR) and linear quadratic tracking (LQT) problems with constrained inputs using a novel off-policy continuous-time Q-learning framework. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Duc Cuong Nguyen , Quang Huy Dao , Phuong Nam Dao

We consider a discrete-time Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control problem in which Massey's directed information from the observed output of the plant to the control input is minimized while required control performance is attainable.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Takashi Tanaka , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Sanjoy K. Mitter

We investigate a Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control and sensing co-design problem, where one jointly designs sensing and control policies. We focus on the realistic case where the sensing design is selected among a finite set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Vasileios Tzoumas , Luca Carlone , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

In this paper, we analyze the regret incurred by a computationally efficient exploration strategy, known as naive exploration, for controlling unknown partially observable systems within the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) framework. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Archith Athrey , Othmane Mazhar , Meichen Guo , Bart De Schutter , Shengling Shi

In networked control systems, often the sensory signals are quantized before being transmitted to the controller. Consequently, performance is affected by the coarseness of this quantization process. Modern communication technologies allow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We study model-free learning methods for the output-feedback Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problem in finite-horizon subject to subspace constraints on the control policy. Subspace constraints naturally arise in the field of distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Luca Furieri , Yang Zheng , Maryam Kamgarpour

Many real-world sequential decision-making problems can be formulated as optimal control with high-dimensional observations and unknown dynamics. A promising approach is to embed the high-dimensional observations into a lower-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Nir Levine , Yinlam Chow , Rui Shu , Ang Li , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Hung Bui

We investigate a linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) tracking problem with safety and reachability constraints in the presence of an adversary who mounts an FDI attack on an unknown set of sensors. For each possible set of compromised sensors,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Zhouchi Li , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark

In this work, we study the deception of a Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) agent by manipulating the cost signals. We show that a small falsification of the cost parameters will only lead to a bounded change in the optimal policy. The bound…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Yunhan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

This paper addresses the end-to-end sample complexity bound for learning the H2 optimal controller (the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem) with unknown dynamics, for potentially unstable Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems. The robust…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Yifei Zhang , Sourav Kumar Ukil , Ephraim Neimand , Serban Sabau , Myron E. Hohil

Designing controllers to generate various trajectories has been studied for years, while recently, recovering an optimal controller from trajectories receives increasing attention. In this paper, we reveal that the inherent linear quadratic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Chendi Qu , Jianping He , Xiaoming Duan

This paper describes the design of a linear quadratic gaussian (LQG) for trajectory tracking control of UAV Bicopter. In this work, disturbance in the form of payload significantly affects the trajectory tracking control process on the UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Fahmizal , Hanung Adi Nugroho , Adha Imam Cahyadi , Igi Ardiyanto

Distributed optimal control is known to be challenging and can become intractable even for linear-quadratic regulator problems. In this work, we study a special class of such problems where distributed state feedback controllers can give…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Johan Olsson , Runyu Zhang , Emma Tegling , Na Li

We study the discrete-time linear-quadratic (LQ) control model using reinforcement learning (RL). Using entropy to measure the cost of exploration, we prove that the optimal feedback policy for the problem must be Gaussian type. Then, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-05 Lucky Li

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

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

Declines in cost and concerns about the environmental impact of traditional generation have boosted the penetration of renewables and non-conventional distributed energy resources into the power grid. The intermittent availability of these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Priyank Srivastava , Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez , Jorge Cortes

This paper addresses the problem of event-based distributed Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control for multirobot coordination under localization uncertainty. An event-triggered LQG rendezvous control strategy is proposed to ensure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Tohid Kargar Tasooji , Sakineh Khodadadi

Autonomous learning has been a promising direction in control and robotics for more than a decade since data-driven learning allows to reduce the amount of engineering knowledge, which is otherwise required. However, autonomous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-12 Marc Peter Deisenroth , Dieter Fox , Carl Edward Rasmussen

In this paper, we define and solve the Inverse Stochastic Optimal Control (ISOC) problem of the linear-quadratic Gaussian (LQG) and the linear-quadratic sensorimotor (LQS) control model. These Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) models are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Philipp Karg , Simon Stoll , Simon Rothfuß , Sören Hohmann