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This paper introduces a generalization of the well-known Riccati recursion for solving the discrete-time equality-constrained linear quadratic optimal control problem. The recursion can be used to compute the solutions as well as optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Lander Vanroye , Joris De Schutter , Wilm Decré

This paper focuses on stochastic optimal control problems with constraints in law, which are rewritten as optimization (minimization) of probability measures problem on the canonical space. We introduce a penalized version of this type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Thibaut Bourdais , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

The paper deals with an optimal control problem in a dynamical system described by a linear differential equation with the Caputo fractional derivative. The goal of control is to minimize a Bolza-type cost functional, which consists of two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Mikhail Gomoyunov

In model predictive control (MPC), the choice of cost-weighting matrices and designing the Hessian matrix directly affects the trade-off between rapid state regulation and minimizing the control effort. However, traditional MPC in quadratic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Komeil Nosrati , Juri Belikov , Aleksei Tepljakov , Eduard Petlenkov

Distributed control problems under some specific information constraints can be formulated as (possibly infinite dimensional) convex optimization problems. The underlying motivation of this work is to develop an understanding of the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Takashi Tanaka , Pablo A. Parrilo

We address the optimal control problems arising from partial differential equations with large discrete dimensional control systems. To obtain reduced order models, we find basis elements from the canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jiahua Jiang , Carmeliza Navasca

This paper presents an interpretable reward design framework for reinforcement learning based constrained optimal control problems with state and terminal constraints. The problem is formalized within a standard partially observable Markov…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Jingjie Ni , Fangfei Li , Xin Jin , Xianlun Peng , Yang Tang

We consider the linear quadratic Gaussian control problem with a discounted cost functional for descriptor systems on the infinite time horizon. Based on recent results from the deterministic framework, we characterize the feasibility of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Hermann Mena , Lena-Maria Pfurtscheller , Matthias Voigt

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

This article is concerned with the optimal boundary control of the Maxwell system. We consider a Bolza problem, where the quadratic functional to be minimized penalizes the electromagnetic field at a given final time. Since the state is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Francesca Bucci , Matthias Eller

The purpose of this work is the design and analysis of a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the so-called pointwise tracking optimal control problem. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for steering the state covariance of a discrete-time linear stochastic system over a finite time horizon. First, we establish the existence and uniqueness of the optimal control law for a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Fengjiao Liu , George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Many inverse and parameter estimation problems can be written as PDE-constrained optimization problems. The goal, then, is to infer the parameters, typically coefficients of the PDE, from partial measurements of the solutions of the PDE for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix J. Herrmann

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

We derive an explicit solution to the operator Riccati equation solving the Linear-Quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem for a class of boundary controlled hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). Different descriptions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Anthony Hastir , Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

In this paper, we investigate the optimal output tracking problem for linear discrete-time systems with unknown dynamics using reinforcement learning and robust output regulation theory. This output tracking problem only allows to utilize…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Ci Chen , Lihua Xie , Yi Jiang , Kan Xie , Shengli Xie

We analyze a class of multidimensional linear-quadratic stochastic control problems with random coefficients, motivated by multi-asset optimal trade execution. The problems feature non-diffusive controlled state dynamics and a terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Julia Ackermann , Thomas Kruse , Petr Petrov , Alexandre Popier

In this paper, we consider the problem of distributed optimal control of linear dynamical systems with a quadratic cost criterion. We study the case of output feedback control for two interconnected dynamical systems, and show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-18 Ather Gattami , Omid Khorsand

This paper addresses the problem of steering the distribution of the state of a discrete-time linear system to a given target distribution while minimizing an entropy-regularized cost functional. This problem is called a maximum entropy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

The purpose of this paper is to close the remaining gaps in the understanding of the role that the constrained generalized continuous algebraic Riccati equation plays in singular linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control. Indeed, in spite of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Augusto Ferrante , Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis