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We consider solutions to the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) regulator problem via policy gradient (PG) methods. Although PG methods have demonstrated strong theoretical guarantees in solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Kasra Fallah , Leonardo F. Toso , James Anderson

This paper studies a class of partially observed Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) problems with unknown dynamics. We establish an end-to-end sample complexity bound on learning a robust LQG controller for open-loop stable plants. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Yang Zheng , Luca Furieri , Maryam Kamgarpour , Na Li

We propose a distributionally robust data-driven predictive control framework for stochastic linear time-invariant systems with unknown dynamics and disturbance distributions. We use an offline trajectory to fit the subspace predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Mirhan Urkmez , Shahab Heshmati-Alamdari

In this paper we present a linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) feedback control strategy for a class of linear non-Markovian quantum systems. The feedback control law is designed based on the estimated states of a whitening quantum filter for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Shibei Xue , Matthew R. James , Valery Ugrinovskii , Ian R. Petersen

In this paper we generalize the estimation-control duality that exists in the linear-quadratic-Gaussian setting. We extend this duality to maximum a posteriori estimation of the system's state, where the measurement and dynamical system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Robert Bassett , Michael Casey , Roger J-B Wets

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

It is well-known that linear dynamical systems with Gaussian noise and quadratic cost (LQG) satisfy a separation principle. Finding the optimal controller amounts to solving separate dual problems; one for control and one for estimation.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Laurent Lessard , Ashutosh Nayyar

We study the problem of designing a state feedback linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller for a system in which the system matrices as well as the process noise covariance are unknown. We do a rigorous comparison between two approaches.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Mingxiang Liu , Damián Marelli , Minyue Fu , Qianqian Cai

Precise control under uncertainty requires a good understanding and characterization of the noise affecting the system. This paper studies the problem of steering state distributions of dynamical systems subject to partially known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper studies a discrete-time stochastic control problem with linear quadratic criteria over an infinite-time horizon. We focus on a class of control systems whose system matrices are associated with random parameters involving unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu , Xun Li

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control of continuous-time system with terminal state constraint. In particular, multiple agents exist in the system which can only access partial information of the matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

Wasserstein distributionally robust control (DRC) recently emerges as a principled paradigm for handling uncertainty in stochastic dynamical systems. However, it constructs data-driven ambiguity sets via uniform distribution shifts before…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jingyi Wu , Chao Ning , Yang Shi

This paper studies a class of continuous-time scalar-state stochastic Linear-Quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem with the linear control constraints. Applying the state separation theorem induced from its special structure, we develop…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-12 Weiping Wu , Jianjun Gao , Junguo Lu , Xun Li

In this paper we consider the distributed linear quadratic control problem for networks of agents with single integrator dynamics. We first establish a general formulation of the distributed LQ problem and show that the optimal control gain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Junjie Jiao , Harry L. Trentelman , M. Kanat Camlibel

This paper considers a set of multiple independent control systems that are each connected over a non-stationary wireless channel. The goal is to maximize control performance over all the systems through the allocation of transmitting power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Mark Eisen , Konstantinos Gatsis , George J. Pappas , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper considers a class of mean field linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) games with model uncertainty. The drift term in the dynamics of the agents contains a common unknown function. We take a robust optimization approach where a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Jianhui Huang , Minyi Huang

This paper presents approaches to mean-field control, motivated by distributed control of multi-agent systems. Control solutions are based on a convex optimization problem, whose domain is a convex set of probability mass functions (pmfs).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Neil Cammardella , Ana Bušić , Sean Meyn

We consider a class of finite-horizon, linear-quadratic stochastic control problems, where the probability distribution governing the noise process is unknown but assumed to belong to an ambiguity set consisting of all distributions whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Feras Al Taha , Eilyan Bitar

We present a data-driven method for solving the linear quadratic regulator problem for systems with multiplicative disturbances, the distribution of which is only known through sample estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Peter Coppens , Mathijs Schuurmans , Panagiotis Patrinos

Based on a recently developed notion of physical realizability for quantum linear stochastic systems, we formulate a quantum LQG optimal control problem for quantum linear stochastic systems where the controller itself may also be a quantum…

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