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This work investigates the optimal control of the variable-exponent subdiffusion, which extends the work [Gunzburger and Wang, {\it SIAM J. Control Optim.} 2019] to the variable-exponent case to account for the multiscale and crossover…
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We consider $\hinf$-optimal state-feedback control of the class of linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) which admit a Partial Integral Equation (PIE) representation. While linear matrix inequalities are commonly used for optimal…
We explore reinforcement learning methods for finding the optimal policy in the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem. In particular, we consider the convergence of policy gradient methods in the setting of known and unknown parameters.…
The linear quadratic regulator problem is central in optimal control and was investigated since the very beginning of control theory. Nevertheless, when it includes affine state constraints, it remains very challenging from the classical…
This paper presents a novel factor graph-based approach to solve the discrete-time finite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulator problem subject to auxiliary linear equality constraints within and across time steps. We represent such optimal…
In this study, we present a purely data-driven method that uses the Loewner framework (LF) along with nonlinear optimization techniques to infer quadratic with affine control dynamical systems that admit Volterra series (VS) representations…
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This paper first presents necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of discrete time, mean-field, stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Then, by introducing several sequences of bounded linear operators, the…
In this paper we investigate infinite horizon optimal control problems for parametrized partial differential equations. We are interested in feedback control via dynamic programming equations which is well-known to suffer from the curse of…
This paper is concerned with a linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem for backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs, for short), where the coefficients of the backward control system and the weighting matrices in…
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Finite-time linear-quadratic control of partial differential-algebraic equations (PDAEs) is considered. The discussion is restricted to those that are radial with index $0$; this corresponds to a nilpotency degree of 1. We establish the…
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