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We develop a model-free learning algorithm for the infinite-horizon linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem. Specifically, (risk) constraints and structured feedback are considered, in order to reduce the state deviation while allowing for…

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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

Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) and Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control are foundational and extensively researched problems in optimal control. We investigate LQR and LQG problems with semi-adversarial perturbations and time-varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Y. Jennifer Sun , Stephen Newman , Elad Hazan

In the context of autonomous driving, the iterative linear quadratic regulator (iLQR) is known to be an efficient approach to deal with the nonlinear vehicle model in motion planning problems. Particularly, the constrained iLQR algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jun Ma , Zilong Cheng , Xiaoxue Zhang , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Tong Heng Lee

We study the problem of designing a state feedback linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller for a system in which the system matrices as well as the process noise covariance are unknown. We do a rigorous comparison between two approaches.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Mingxiang Liu , Damián Marelli , Minyue Fu , Qianqian Cai

In this paper, we present the combined learning-and-control (CLC) approach, which is a new way to solve optimal control problems with unknown dynamics by unifying model-based control and data-driven learning. The key idea is simple: we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We present a new algorithm for solving linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems with linear equality constraints, also known as constrained LQR (CLQR) problems. Our method's sequential runtime is linear in the number of stages and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 João Sousa-Pinto , Dominique Orban

This paper addresses the inverse optimal control problem of finding the state weighting function that leads to a quadratic value function when the cost on the input is fixed to be quadratic. The paper focuses on a class of infinite horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Luis Rodrigues

Model-based reinforcement learning techniques accelerate the learning task by employing a transition model to make predictions. In this paper, a model-based learning approach is presented that iteratively computes the optimal value function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Milad Farsi , Jun Liu

This paper presents a state and state-input constrained variant of the discrete-time iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR) algorithm, with linear time-complexity in the number of time steps. The approach is based on a projection of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Markus Giftthaler , Jonas Buchli

In this paper, we propose and analyze a new method for online linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control with a priori unknown time-varying cost matrices. The cost matrices are revealed sequentially with the potential for future values to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Yitian Chen , Timothy L. Molloy , Tyler Summers , Iman Shames

We study in this paper the linear quadratic optimal control (linear quadratic regulation, LQR for short) for discrete-time complex-valued linear systems, which have shown to have several potential applications in control theory. Firstly, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bin Zhou

In this paper, we investigate a data-driven framework to solve Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problems when the dynamics is unknown, with the additional challenge of providing stability certificates for the overall learning and control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Sforni , Guido Carnevale , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study a model-free federated linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem where M agents with unknown, distinct yet similar dynamics collaboratively learn an optimal policy to minimize an average quadratic cost while keeping their data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Han Wang , Leonardo F. Toso , Aritra Mitra , James Anderson

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

In this article, we study a model-free design approach for stochastic linear quadratic (SLQ) controllers. Based on the convexity of the SLQ dual problem and the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, we find the relationship between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jing Guo , Xiushan Jiang , Weihai Zhang

This paper studies the data-driven synthesis of linear quadratic integral (LQI) controllers for continuous-time systems. The objective is to achieve optimal state-feedback control with integral action for reference tracking using only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Armin Gießler , Pol Jané-Soneira , Sören Hohmann

This paper introduces a novel model-free and a partially model-free algorithm for inverse optimal control (IOC), also known as inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), aimed at estimating the cost function of continuous-time nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Hamed Jabbari Asl , Eiji Uchibe

This paper introduces a novel data-driven approach to design a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) using a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that does not require a system model. The key contribution is to perform policy iteration (PI) by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Soroush Asri , Luis Rodrigues

We study in this paper a class of constrained linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem formulations for the scalar-state stochastic system with multiplicative noise, which has various applications, especially in the financial risk…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Weipin Wu , Jianjun Gao , Duan Li , Yun Shi