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The optimal controller design problem for a linear, first-order spatially-invariant distributed parameter system is considered. Through a case study of the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem for the diffusion equation over the torus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Addie McCurdy , Andrew Gusty , Emily Jensen

A time-inconsistent optimal control problem is formulated and studied for a controlled linear ordinary differential equation with quadratic cost functional. A notion of equilibrium control is introduced, which can be regarded as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Jiongmin Yong

This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

We study the linear-quadratic control problem for a class of non-exchangeable mean-field systems, which model large populations of heterogeneous interacting agents. We explicitly characterize the optimal control in terms of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Anna de Crescenzo , Filippo de Feo , Huyên Pham

This paper presents a sample-efficient, data-driven control framework for finite-horizon linear quadratic (LQ) control of linear time-varying (LTV) systems. In contrast to the time-invariant case, the time-varying LQ problem involves a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Sahel Vahedi Noori , Maryam Babazadeh

This paper is concerned with optimal control of stochastic fully coupled forward-backward linear quadratic (FBLQ) problems with indefinite control weight costs. In order to obtain the state feedback representation of the optimal control, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaole Xue

This paper focuses on the discrete-time backward stochastic linear quadratic (BSLQ) optimal control problem with nonhomogeneous system terms and cost function cross terms. The terminal constraint of such systems distinguishes it from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hu Ligui , Meng Qingxin , Tang Maoning

Recently it has been found that for a stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem (LQ problem, for short) in a finite horizon, open-loop solvability is strictly weaker than closed-loop solvability which is equivalent to the regular…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Jingrui Sun , Hanxiao Wang , Jiongmin Yong

This paper focuses on indefinite stochastic mean-field linear-quadratic (MF-LQ, for short) optimal control problems, which allow the weighting matrices for state and control in the cost functional to be indefinite. The solvability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Na Li , Xun Li , Zhiyong Yu

We study the linear-quadratic optimal control problem for infinite-dimensional dissipative systems with possibly indefinite cost functional. Under the assumption that a storage function exists, we show that this indefinite optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Anthony Hastir , Timo Reis

As it is popular known, Riccati equation is the key basic tool for optimal control in the modern control theory. The solvability conditions of optimal control, stabilization conditions and controller design are all based on the Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Huanshui Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

A novel method of an adaptive linear quadratic (LQ) regulation of uncertain continuous linear time-invariant systems is proposed. Such an approach is based on the direct self-tuning regulators design framework and the exponentially stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Anton Glushchenko , Konstantin Lastochkin

We consider an optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The problem is discretized by linear finite elements for the state and a variational discrete approach for the control. Based on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Christian Meyer , Monika Weymuth

This paper studies an infinite horizon optimal control problem for discrete-time linear systems and quadratic criteria, both with random parameters which are independent and identically distributed with respect to time. A classical approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Kai Du , Qingxin Meng , Fu Zhang

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 this paper, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of evolutionary integral equations perturbed by a noise arising in the theory of heat conduction. As a motivation of our results, we study an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 F. Cconfortola , E. Mastrogiacomo

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed optimal control of linear dynamical systems with a quadratic cost criterion. We study the case of output feedback control for two interconnected dynamical systems, and show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-18 Ather Gattami , Omid Khorsand

We analyze a sequential quadratic programming algorithm for solving a class of abstract optimization problems. Assuming that the initial point is in an $L^2$ neighborhood of a local solution that satisfies no-gap second-order sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos

This paper studies the linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of a class of systems governed by the first-order hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with final state constraints. The main contribution is to present the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Xiaomin Xue , Juanjuan Xu , Huanshui Zhang , Long Hu

This paper is concerned with a stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem on infinite time horizon, with regime switching, random coefficients, and cone control constraint. To tackle the problem, two new extended stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Ying Hu , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu