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Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) for linear systems seeks a cost function whose optimal controller reproduces an expert policy from data. Existing data-driven methods for discrete-time linear systems are largely built on iterative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Duc Cuong Nguyen , Phuong Nam Dao

In this paper, the inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem is addressed to reconstruct the unknown cost function underlying an observed optimal policy in a model-free manner, whose online adaptation with completely off-policy system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Yibei Li , Yuexin Cao , Zhixin Liu , Lihua Xie

Reinforcement learning can acquire complex behaviors from high-level specifications. However, defining a cost function that can be optimized effectively and encodes the correct task is challenging in practice. We explore how inverse optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine , Pieter Abbeel

This article studies inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) for the stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, where two agents are considered. A learner agent does not know the expert agent's performance cost function, but it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Zhongshi Sun , Guangyan Jia

Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) seeks to recover an unknown cost from expert demonstrations, and it provides a systematic way of modeling experts' decision mechanisms while considering the prior information of the cost functions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ziliang Wang , Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) aims to infer the underlying cost functional of an agent from observations of its expert behavior. This paper focuses on the IOC problem within the continuous-time linear quadratic regulator framework,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Meiling Yu , Lechen Feng , Lei Jiang , Yuan-Hua Ni

Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) is a powerful framework for learning a behaviour from observations of experts. The framework aims to identify the underlying cost function that the observed optimal trajectories (the experts' behaviour) are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

This paper presents a model-free reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to solve the risk-averse optimal control (RAOC) problem for discrete-time nonlinear systems. While successful RL algorithms have been presented to learn optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Yuzhen Han , Majid Mazouchi , Subramanya Nageshrao , Hamidreza Modares

This paper proposes a data-driven, iterative approach for inverse optimal control (IOC), which aims to learn the objective function of a nonlinear optimal control system given its states and inputs. The approach solves the IOC problem in a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Zihao Liang , Wenjian Hao , Shaoshuai Mou

Learning from expert demonstrations to flexibly program an autonomous system with complex behaviors or to predict an agent's behavior is a powerful tool, especially in collaborative control settings. A common method to solve this problem is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Samuel Tesfazgi , Leonhard Sprandl , Armin Lederer , Sandra Hirche

The Inverse Optimal Control (IOC) problem is a structured system identification problem that aims to identify the underlying objective function based on observed optimal trajectories. This provides a data-driven way to model experts'…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Han Zhang , Axel Ringh

The gloabal objective of inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is to estimate the unknown cost function of some MDP base on observed trajectories generated by (approximate) optimal policies. The classical approach consists in tuning this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Firas Jarboui , Vianney Perchet

This paper focuses on the development of an online inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) technique for a class of nonlinear systems. The developed approach utilizes observed state and input trajectories, and determines the unknown cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ryan Self , Michael Harlan , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

In this paper, we formulate inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) as an expert-learner interaction whereby the optimal performance intent of an expert or target agent is unknown to a learner agent. The learner observes the states and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Wenqian Xue , Bosen Lian , Jialu Fan , Tianyou Chai , Frank L. Lewis

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm named synchronous integral Q-learning, which is based on synchronous policy iteration, to solve the continuous-time infinite horizon optimal control problems of input-affine system dynamics. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lei Guo , Han Zhao

We consider the problem of discounted optimal state-feedback regulation for general unknown deterministic discrete-time systems. It is well known that open-loop instability of systems, non-quadratic cost functions and complex nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Alexandros Tanzanakis , John Lygeros

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is the problem of finding a reward function which describes observed/known expert behavior. The IRL setting is remarkably useful for automated control, in situations where the reward function is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Gregory Dexter , Kevin Bello , Jean Honorio

Inverse optimal control, also known as inverse reinforcement learning, is the problem of recovering an unknown reward function in a Markov decision process from expert demonstrations of the optimal policy. We introduce a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Sergey Levine , Vladlen Koltun

It can be difficult to autonomously produce driver behavior so that it appears natural to other traffic participants. Through Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL), we can automate this process by learning the underlying reward function from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Keuntaek Lee , David Isele , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Sangjae Bae

Model-based reinforcement learning is an effective approach for controlling an unknown system. It is based on a longstanding pipeline familiar to the control community in which one performs experiments on the environment to collect a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Bruce D. Lee , Ingvar Ziemann , George J. Pappas , Nikolai Matni
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