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For large uncertain systems, solving model predictive control problems online can be computationally taxing. Using a shorter prediction horizon can help, but may lead to poor performance and instability without appropriate modifications.…

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As the benchmark of data-driven control methods, the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem has gained significant attention. A growing trend is direct LQR design, which finds the optimal LQR gain directly from raw data and bypassing…

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Individual agents in a multi-agent system (MAS) may have decoupled open-loop dynamics, but a cooperative control objective usually results in coupled closed-loop dynamics thereby making the control design computationally expensive. The…

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Configuring variational quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization remains a difficult, expert-driven process requiring coordinated choices over solver family, ansatz, objective, and optimizer. We present AutoQResearch, an LLM-guided…

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While the topic of mean-field games (MFGs) has a relatively long history, heretofore there has been limited work concerning algorithms for the computation of equilibrium control policies. In this paper, we develop a computable policy…

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Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is a fundamental control paradigm that is studied in various fields such as engineering, computer science, economics, and neuroscience. It involves controlling a system with linear dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Bahar Taşkesen , Dan A. Iancu , Çağıl Koçyiğit , Daniel Kuhn

Multi-agent reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to a number of challenging problems. Despite these empirical successes, theoretical understanding of different algorithms is lacking, primarily due to the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuwei Luo , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Mladen Kolar

Classical linear quadratic (LQ) control centers around linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, where the control-state pairs introduce a quadratic cost with time-invariant parameters. Recent advancement in online optimization and control has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Ting-Jui Chang , Shahin Shahrampour

Despite its nonconvexity, policy optimization for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) admits a favorable structural property known as gradient dominance, which facilitates linear convergence of policy gradient methods to the globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yuto Watanabe , Yang Zheng

We propose a control design method for linear time-invariant systems that iteratively learns to satisfy unknown polyhedral state constraints. At each iteration of a repetitive task, the method constructs an estimate of the unknown…

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Reinforcement learning methods typically use Deep Neural Networks to approximate the value functions and policies underlying a Markov Decision Process. Unfortunately, DNN-based RL suffers from a lack of explainability of the resulting…

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We propose a new reinforcement learning based approach to designing hierarchical linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controllers for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems with unknown state-space models and separated control objectives. The…

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In this paper, network of agents with identical dynamics is considered. The agents are assumed to be fed by self and neighboring output measurements, while the states are not available for measuring. Viewing distributed estimation as dual…

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This paper addresses the problem of designing control policies for agents with unknown stochastic dynamics and control objectives specified using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Recent Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have aimed to…

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This paper introduces an extension of the LQR-tree algorithm, which is a feedback-motion-planning algorithm for stabilizing a system of ordinary differential equations from a bounded set of initial conditions to a goal. The constructed…

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We consider the static output feedback control for Linear Quadratic Regulator problems with structured constraints under the assumption that system parameters are unknown. To solve the problem in the model free setting, we propose the…

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In recent years, $Q$-learning has become indispensable for model-free reinforcement learning (MFRL). However, it suffers from well-known problems such as under- and overestimation bias of the value, which may adversely affect the policy…

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This paper presents a novel model-free and fully data-driven policy iteration scheme for quadratic regulation of linear dynamics with state- and input-multiplicative noise. The implementation is similar to the least-squares temporal…

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