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In this paper, we investigate finite-horizon optimal density steering problems for discrete-time stochastic linear dynamical systems whose state probability densities can be represented as Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). Our goal is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Isin M Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

The paper studies the optimal density steering problem for nonlinear continuous-time stochastic systems. To accurately capture nonlinear dynamics in high-uncertainty regions that deviate significantly from a nominal linearization point, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Mattia Mosso , George Rapakoulias , Yue Guan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this work, we revisit the discrete-time Schr\"{o}dinger Bridge (SB) and Density Steering (DS) problems for Gaussian mixture model (GMM) boundary distributions. Building on the existing literature, we construct a set of feasible Markovian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 George Rapakoulias , Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

A method is presented to solve a stochastic, nonlinear optimal control problem representative of spacecraft trajectory design under uncertainty. The problem is reformulated as a chance constrained nonlinear program, or what is known as a…

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This work addresses the optimal covariance control problem for stochastic discrete-time linear time-varying systems subject to chance constraints. Covariance steering is a stochastic control problem to steer the system state Gaussian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Kazuhide Okamoto , Maxim Goldshtein , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper studies the problem of steering the distribution of a discrete-time dynamical system from an initial distribution to a target distribution in finite time. The formulation is fully nonlinear, allowing the use of general control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We address the problem of finite-horizon control of a discrete-time linear system, where the initial state distribution follows a Gaussian mixture model, the terminal state must follow a specified Gaussian distribution, and the state and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Naoya Kumagai , Kenshiro Oguri

Ensemble systems appear frequently in many engineering applications and, as a result, they have become an important research topic in control theory. These systems are best characterized by the evolution of their underlying state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Guangyu Wu , Panagiotis Tsiotras , Anders Lindquist

We propose to solve a constrained distribution steering problem, i.e., steering a stochastic linear system from an initial distribution to some final, desired distribution subject to chance constraints. We do so by characterizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Joshua Pilipovsky , Meeko M. K. Oishi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We tackle the data-driven chance-constrained density steering problem using the Gromov-Wasserstein metric. The underlying dynamical system is an unknown linear controlled recursion, with the assumption that sufficiently rich input-output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Haruto Nakashima , Siddhartha Ganguly , Kenji Kashima

Many problems in navigation and tracking require increasingly accurate characterizations of the evolution of uncertainty in nonlinear systems. Nonlinear uncertainty propagation approaches based on Gaussian mixture density approximations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Jackson Kulik , Keith A. LeGrand

In this paper, we present a new control policy parametrization for the finite-horizon covariance steering problem for discrete-time Gaussian linear systems (DTGLS) which can reduce the latter stochastic optimal control problem to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas

In this work, we consider the problem of steering the first two moments of the uncertain state of an unknown discrete-time stochastic nonlinear system to a given terminal distribution in finite time. Toward that goal, first, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Alexandros Tsolovikos , Efstathios Bakolas

We consider the problem of minimum energy steering of a linear stochastic system to a final prescribed distribution over a finite horizon and to maintain a stationary distribution over an infinite horizon. We present sufficient conditions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Michele Pavon

This paper considers the problem of steering an arbitrary initial probability density function to an arbitrary terminal one, where the system dynamics is governed by a first-order linear stochastic difference equation. It is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Guangyu Wu , Anders Lindquist

General distribution steering is intrinsically an infinite-dimensional problem, when the continuous distributions to steer are arbitrary. We put forward a moment representation of the primal system for control in [42]. However, the system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Guangyu Wu , Anders Lindquist

We consider the covariance steering problem for nonlinear control-affine systems. Our objective is to find an optimal control strategy to steer the state of a system from an initial distribution to a target one whose mean and covariance are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Hongzhe Yu , Zhenyang Chen , Yongxin Chen

Gaussian mixtures are a common density representation in nonlinear, non-Gaussian Bayesian state estimation. Selecting an appropriate number of Gaussian components, however, is difficult as one has to trade of computational complexity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-04-02 Marco F. Huber

This work investigates the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering problem for discrete-time linear systems subject to both additive and multiplicative uncertainties as well as state and input chance constraints. In particular, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Jacob Knaup , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this work, we consider the problem of steering the first two moments of the uncertain state of a discrete time nonlinear stochastic system to prescribed goal quantities at a given final time. In principle, the latter problem can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Efstathios Bakolas , Alexandros Tsolovikos
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