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We investigate conditions of optimality for an infinite horizon control problem and consider their correspondence with the value function. Assuming Lipschitz continuity of the value function, we prove that sensitivity relations plus the…
A standard way of finding a feedback law that stabilizes a control system to an operating point is to recast the problem as an infinite horizon optimal control problem. If the optimal cost and the optmal feedback can be found on a large…
A learning technique for finite horizon optimal control problems and its approximation based on polynomials is analyzed. It allows to circumvent, in part, the curse dimensionality which is involved when the feedback law is constructed by…
Model Predictive Control has emerged as a popular tool for robots to generate complex motions. However, the real-time requirement has limited the use of hard constraints and large preview horizons, which are necessary to ensure safety and…
In this paper we provide optimal bounds for fully discrete approximations to finite horizon problems via dynamic programming. We adapt the error analysis in \cite{nos} for the infinite horizon case to the finite horizon case. We prove an a…
The closed-loop stability and infinite-horizon performance of receding-horizon approximations are studied for non-stationary linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems. The approach is based on a lifted reformulation of the optimal control…
In the last decades, control problems with infinite horizons and discount factors have become increasingly central not only for economics but also for applications in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The strong links between…
A self-learning approach for optimal feedback gains for finite-horizon nonlinear continuous time control systems is proposed and analysed. It relies on parameter dependent approximations to the optimal value function obtained from a family…
We consider a nonlinear discrete stochastic control system, and our goal is to design a feedback control policy in order to lead the system to a prespecified state. We adopt a stochastic approximation viewpoint of this problem. It is known…
In this paper we get error bounds for fully discrete approximations of infinite horizon problems via the dynamic programming approach. It is well known that considering a time discretization with a positive step size $h$ an error bound of…
In this paper infinite horizon optimal control problems for nonlinear high-dimensional dynamical systems are studied. Nonlinear feedback laws can be computed via the value function characterized as the unique viscosity solution to the…
A learning based method for obtaining feedback laws for nonlinear optimal control problems is proposed. The learning problem is posed such that the open loop value function is its optimal solution. This infinite dimensional, function space,…
We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) with a single-step prediction horizon to approximate the solution of infinite horizon optimal control problems with the expected sum of convex stage costs for constrained linear uncertain systems.…
We establish an algorithm to learn feedback maps from data for a class of robust model predictive control (MPC) problems. The algorithm accounts for the approximation errors due to the learning directly at the synthesis stage, ensuring…
A class of infinite horizon optimal control problems involving $L^p$-type cost functionals with $0<p\leq 1$ is discussed. The existence of optimal controls is studied for both the convex case with $p=1$ and the nonconvex case with $0<p<1$,…
A class of infinite horizon optimal control problems involving mixed quasi-norms of $L^p$-type cost functionals for the controls is discussed. These functionals enhance sparsity and switching properties of the optimal controls. The…
A typical bottleneck of model predictive control algorithms is the computational burden in order to compute the receding horizon feedback law which is predominantly determined by the length of the prediction horizon. Based on a relaxed…
In this paper we consider nonautonomous optimal control problems of infinite horizon type, whose control actions are given by $L^1$-functions. We verify that the value function is locally Lipschitz. The equivalence between dynamic…
An infinite-dimensional bilinear optimal control problem with infinite-time horizon is considered. The associated value function can be expanded in a Taylor series around the equilibrium, the Taylor series involving multilinear forms which…
Online reinforcement learning in infinite-horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs) remains less theoretically and algorithmically developed than its episodic counterpart, with many algorithms suffering from high ``burn-in'' costs and…