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This paper studies the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem over an unknown Bernoulli packet loss channel. The unknown loss rate is estimated using finite channel samples and a certainty-equivalence (CE) optimal controller is then…

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We consider the problem of scheduling in constrained queueing networks with a view to minimizing packet delay. Modern communication systems are becoming increasingly complex, and are required to handle multiple types of traffic with widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mohammani Zaki , Avi Mohan , Aditya Gopalan , Shie Mannor

We study the policy gradient method (PGM) for the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) dynamic output-feedback control problem using an input-output-history (IOH) representation of the closed-loop system. First, we show that any dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Tomonori Sadamoto , Takashi Tanaka

Many control policies used in various applications determine the input or action by solving a convex optimization problem that depends on the current state and some parameters. Common examples of such convex optimization control policies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Akshay Agrawal , Shane Barratt , Stephen Boyd , Bartolomeo Stellato

This paper focuses on the linear quadratic control (LQC) design of systems corrupted by both stochastic noise and bounded noise simultaneously. When only of these noises are considered, the LQC strategy leads to stochastic or robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Xuehui Ma , Shiliang Zhang , Xiaohui Zhang , Jing Xin , Hector Garcia de Marina

We study the sample efficiency of domain randomization and robust control for the benchmark problem of learning the linear quadratic regulator (LQR). Domain randomization, which synthesizes controllers by minimizing average performance over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-19 Tesshu Fujinami , Bruce D. Lee , Nikolai Matni , George J. Pappas

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

We propose policy gradient algorithms which learn risk-sensitive policies in a reinforcement learning (RL) framework. Our proposed algorithms maximize the distortion risk measure (DRM) of the cumulative reward in an episodic Markov decision…

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This paper presents joint power allocation and interference mitigation techniques for the downlink of spread spectrum systems which employ multiple relays and the amplify and forward cooperation strategy. We propose a joint constrained…

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In this paper, an off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm is designed to solve the continuous-time LQR problem using only input-state data measured from the system. Different from other algorithms in the literature, we propose the use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

In this paper, we investigate the infinite-horizon risk-constrained linear quadratic regulator problem (RC-QR), which augments the classical LQR formulation with a statistical constraint on the variability of the system state to incorporate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Weijian Li , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This paper studies the learning-to-control problem under process and sensing uncertainties for dynamical systems. In our previous work, we developed a data-based generalization of the iterative linear quadratic regulator (iLQR) to design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Ran Wang , Raman Goyal , Suman Chakravorty

This paper considers downlink multicast transmit beamforming for secure layered transmission systems with wireless simultaneous information and power transfer. We study the power allocation algorithm design for minimizing the total transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Hussein Alnuweiri

In this paper, we consider the unconstrained distributed optimization problem, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology, thus, nodes can only communicate with their neighbors.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

This work develops a provably accurate fully-decentralized alternating projected gradient descent (GD) algorithm for recovering a low rank (LR) matrix from mutually independent projections of each of its columns, in a fast and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Shana Moothedath , Namrata Vaswani

This paper presents an algorithm to solve the infinite horizon constrained linear quadratic regulator (CLQR) problem using operator splitting methods. First, the CLQR problem is reformulated as a (finite-time) model predictive control (MPC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 L. Ferranti , G. Stathopoulos , C. N. Jones , T. Keviczky

In networked control systems (NCS), sensing and control signals between the plant and controllers are typically transmitted wirelessly. Thus, the time delay plays an important role for the stability of NCS, especially with distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Zhuwei Wang , Xiaodong Wang

This paper presents a data-driven solution to the discrete-time infinite horizon LQR problem. The state feedback gain is computed directly from a batch of input and state data collected from the plant. Simulation examples illustrate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Gustavo R. Gonçalves da Silva , Alexandre S. Bazanella , Lucíola Campstrini

Distributed optimization problems usually face inexact communication issues induced by channel noise, communication quantization or differential privacy protection. Most existing algorithms need a two-timescale setting of the stepsize of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Shengchao Zhao , Yongchao Liu

We study the problem of estimating low-rank matrices from linear measurements (a.k.a., matrix sensing) through nonconvex optimization. We propose an efficient stochastic variance reduced gradient descent algorithm to solve a nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-17 Xiao Zhang , Lingxiao Wang , Quanquan Gu