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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

We study a generalization of the classical discrete-time, Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control problem where the noise distributions affecting the states and observations are unknown and chosen adversarially from divergence-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Bahar Taşkesen , Dan A. Iancu , Çağıl Koçyiğit , Daniel Kuhn

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller is known to be inherently fragile to model misspecifications common in real-world situations. We consider discrete-time partially observable stochastic linear systems and provide a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Marta Fochesato , Lucia Falconi , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante , John Lygeros

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

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

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problem is a classic and widely studied model in optimal control, providing a fundamental framework for designing controllers for linear systems subject to process and observation noises. In recent years,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoran Li , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni , Xuebo Zhang

The linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem for the linear wave equation on the unit circle with fully distributed actuation and partial state measurements is considered. An analytical solution to a spatial discretization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Addie McCurdy , Emily Jensen

We prove that output-feedback linear policies remain optimal for solving the Linear Quadratic Gaussian regulation problem in the face of worst-case process and measurement noise distributions when these are independent, stationary, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Nicolas Lanzetti , Antonio Terpin , Florian Dörfler

We study control of constrained linear systems with only partial statistical information about the uncertainty affecting the system dynamics and the sensor measurements. Specifically, given a finite collection of disturbance realizations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Jean-Sébastien Brouillon , Andrea Martin , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler , Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate

This paper examines mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) social optimum control with volatility-uncertain common noise. The diffusion terms in the dynamics of agents contain an unknown volatility process driven by a common noise. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Jianhui Huang , Bing-Chang Wang , Jiongmin Yong

The standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) framework assumes a Brownian noise process and relies on classical stochastic calculus tools, such as those based on It\^o calculus. In this paper, we solve a generalized linear quadratic optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Mostafa M. Shibl , Sharan Srinivasan , Harsha Honnappa , Vijay Gupta

We consider a variant of the classical linear quadratic Gaussian regulator (LQG) in which penalties on the endpoint state are replaced by the specification of the terminal state distribution. The resulting theory considerably differs from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is concerned with the design of an optimal controller and estimator for linear Gaussian systems with imperfect state information. Standard LQG assumes the set of sensor measurements, to be fed to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Vasileios Tzoumas , Luca Carlone , George J. Pappas , Ali Jadbabaie

Stochastic optimal control usually requires an explicit dynamical model with probability distributions, which are difficult to obtain in practice. In this work, we consider the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem of unknown linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Feiran Zhao , Keyou You

We study the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem, in which the controller's observation of the system state is such that a desired cost is unattainable. To achieve the desired LQG cost, we introduce a communication link from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Oron Sabag , Peida Tian , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

The linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control paradigm is well-known in literature. The strategy of minimizing the cost function is available, both for the case where the state is known and where it is estimated through an observer. The…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Hildo Bijl , Thomas B. Schön

Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control is a framework first introduced in control theory that provides an optimal solution to linear problems of regulation in the presence of uncertainty. This framework combines Kalman-Bucy filters for the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-14 Manuel Baltieri , Christopher L. Buckley

We study the distributed Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem in discrete-time and finite-horizon, where the controller depends linearly on the history of the outputs and it is required to lie in a given subspace, e.g. to possess…

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

Quantum mechanical systems exhibit an inherently probabilistic nature upon measurement. Using a quantum noise model to describe the stochastic evolution of the open quantum system and working in parallel with classical indeterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Edwards , V. P. Belavkin

Wasserstein distributionally robust control (WDRC) is an effective method for addressing inaccurate distribution information about disturbances in stochastic systems. It provides various salient features, such as an out-of-sample…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang
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