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Quadratic regression (QR) models naturally extend linear models by considering interaction effects between the covariates. To conduct model selection in QR, it is important to maintain the hierarchical model structure between main effects…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-15 Ning Hao , Yang Feng , Hao Helen Zhang

Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) design is one of the most classical optimal control problems, whose well-known solution is an input sequence expressed as a state-feedback. In this work, finite-horizon and discrete-time LQR is solved under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Anna Scampicchio , Aleksandr Aravkin , Gianluigi Pillonetto

For various typical cases and situations where the formulation results in an optimal control problem, the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) approach and its variants continue to be highly attractive. In certain scenarios, it can happen that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Jun Ma , Zilong Cheng , Xiaocong Li , Wenxin Wang , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Tong Heng Lee

Data-driven control that circumvents the process of system identification by providing optimal control inputs directly from system data has attracted renewed attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus on understanding the effects of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Linbin Huang , Jianzhe Zhen , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

Optimism in the face of uncertainty is a popular approach to balance exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning. Here, we consider the online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem, i.e., to learn the LQR corresponding to an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Marcell Bartos , Bruce D. Lee , Lenart Treven , Andreas Krause , Florian Dörfler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

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

We investigate the problem of learning linear quadratic regulators (LQR) in a multi-task, heterogeneous, and model-free setting. We characterize the stability and personalization guarantees of a policy gradient-based (PG) model-agnostic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Leonardo F. Toso , Donglin Zhan , James Anderson , Han Wang

We propose controller synthesis for state regulation problems in which a human operator shares control with an autonomy system, running in parallel. The autonomy system continuously improves over human action, with minimal intervention, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Murad Abu-Khalaf , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

Control using quantized feedback is a fundamental approach to system synthesis with limited communication capacity. In this paper, we address the stabilization problem for unknown linear systems with logarithmically quantized feedback, via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Feiran Zhao , Xingchen Li , Keyou You

A gradient-based method is proposed for solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem for linear systems with nonlinear dependence on time-invariant probabilistic parametric uncertainties. The approach explicitly accounts for model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Leilei Cui , Richard D. Braatz

System stabilization via policy gradient (PG) methods has drawn increasing attention in both control and machine learning communities. In this paper, we study their convergence and sample complexity for stabilizing linear time-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Feiran Zhao , Xingyun Fu , Keyou You

We study the constrained linear quadratic regulator with unknown dynamics, addressing the tension between safety and exploration in data-driven control techniques. We present a framework which allows for system identification through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Sarah Dean , Stephen Tu , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht

This paper studies the linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problem of unknown discrete-time systems via dynamic output feedback learning control. In contrast to the state feedback, the optimality of the dynamic output feedback control for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Kedi Xie , Martin Guay , Shimin Wang , Fang Deng , Maobin Lu

Data-driven predictive control (DPC), using linear combinations of recorded trajectory data, has recently emerged as a popular alternative to traditional model predictive control (MPC). Without an explicitly enforced prediction model, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Manuel Klädtke , Moritz Schulze Darup

The principal task to control dynamical systems is to ensure their stability. When the system is unknown, robust approaches are promising since they aim to stabilize a large set of plausible systems simultaneously. We study linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Lenart Treven , Sebastian Curi , Mojmir Mutny , Andreas Krause

We study the performance of the certainty equivalent controller on Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problems with unknown transition dynamics. We show that for both the fully and partially observed settings, the sub-optimality gap between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Horia Mania , Stephen Tu , Benjamin Recht

Feedback control problems involving autonomous quadratic systems are prevalent, yet there are only a limited number of software tools available for approximating their solution due to the complexity of the problem. This paper represents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Jeff Borggaard , Lizette Zietsman

Dynamical models identified from data are frequently employed in control system design. However, decoupling system identification from controller synthesis can result in situations where no suitable controller exists after a model has been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Alberto Bemporad

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