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This article presents a unified approach to quadratic optimal control for both linear and nonlinear discrete-time systems, with a focus on trajectory tracking. The control strategy is based on minimizing a quadratic cost function that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Igor Ladnik

This paper presents a state and state-input constrained variant of the discrete-time iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) algorithm, with linear time-complexity in the number of time steps. The approach is based on a projection of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Markus Giftthaler , Jonas Buchli

A classical approach for solving discrete time nonlinear control on a finite horizon consists in repeatedly minimizing linear quadratic approximations of the original problem around current candidate solutions. While widely popular in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui

The aim in this paper is to apply the iLQR, iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator, to control the movement of a mobile robot following an already defined trajectory. This control strategy has proven its utility for nonlinear systems. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Ayoub Aaqaoui , Yousif Mohammed Elsheikh Mohammed

In this paper, we introduce a reduced order model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) approach, utilizing the Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (ILQR) algorithm for the optimal control of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs).…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Aayushman Sharma , Suman Chakravorty

While differentiable control has emerged as a powerful paradigm combining model-free flexibility with model-based efficiency, the iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) remains underexplored as a differentiable component. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shuyuan Wang , Philip D. Loewen , Michael Forbes , Bhushan Gopaluni , Wei Pan

This paper investigates the performance of Newton's method, iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR), and Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) in solving discrete-time optimal control problems. We offer a unified perspective on these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Abhijeet , Suman Chakravorty

We study in this paper the linear quadratic optimal control (linear quadratic regulation, LQR for short) for discrete-time complex-valued linear systems, which have shown to have several potential applications in control theory. Firstly, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bin Zhou

We propose a new framework to design controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear systems. The control is designed through the iterative linear quadratic regulator (ILQR), an algorithm that computes control by iteratively applying the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Yizhe Huang , Boris Kramer

Iterative linear quadradic regulator(iLQR) has become a benchmark method to deal with nonlinear stochastic optimal control problem. However, it does not apply to delay system. In this paper, we extend the iLQR theory and prove new theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Cheng Ju , Yan Qin , Chunjiang Fu

This paper focuses on adaptive control of the discrete-time linear quadratic regulator (adaptive LQR). Recent literature has made significant contributions in proving non-asymptotic convergence rates, but existing approaches have a few…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Peter A. Fisher , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

In this paper, discrete linear quadratic regulator (DLQR) and iterative linear quadratic regulator (ILQR) methods based on high-order Runge-Kutta (RK) discretization are proposed for solving linear and nonlinear quadratic optimal control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Zuodi Xie , Tieqiang Gang

This paper studies the learning-to-control problem under process and sensing uncertainties for dynamical systems. In our previous work, we developed a data-based generalization of the iterative linear quadratic regulator (iLQR) to design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Ran Wang , Raman Goyal , Suman Chakravorty

A method is presented for solving the discrete-time finite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem subject to auxiliary linear equality constraints, such as fixed end-point constraints. The method explicitly determines an affine…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Forrest Laine , Claire Tomlin

In the context of autonomous driving, the iterative linear quadratic regulator (iLQR) is known to be an efficient approach to deal with the nonlinear vehicle model in motion planning problems. Particularly, the constrained iLQR algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jun Ma , Zilong Cheng , Xiaoxue Zhang , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Tong Heng Lee

Trajectory optimization is a popular strategy for planning trajectories for robotic systems. However, many robotic tasks require changing contact conditions, which is difficult due to the hybrid nature of the dynamics. The optimal sequence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Nathan J. Kong , George Council , Aaron M. Johnson

Variational integrators are well-suited for simulation of mechanical systems because they preserve mechanical quantities about a system such as momentum, or its change if external forcing is involved, and holonomic constraints. While they…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Elliot Johnson , Jarvis Schultz , Todd Murphey

In this study, we introduce numerical methods for discretizing continuous-time linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ-OCPs). The discretization of continuous-time LQ-OCPs is formulated into differential equation systems, and we can…

This paper presents the numerical discretization methods of the continuous-time linear-quadratic optimal control problems (LQ-OCPs) with time delays. We describe the weight matrices of the LQ-OCPs as differential equations systems, allowing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-15 Zhanhao Zhang , Steen Hørsholt , John Bagterp Jørgensen

Iterative optimization algorithms depend on access to information about the objective function. In a differentiable programming framework, this information, such as gradients, can be automatically derived from the computational graph. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Vincent Roulet , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Maryam Fazel , Zaid Harchaoui
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