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Inspired by REINFORCE, we introduce a novel receding-horizon algorithm for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem with unknown dynamics. Unlike prior methods, our algorithm avoids reliance on two-point gradient estimates while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Amirreza Neshaei Moghaddam , Alex Olshevsky , Bahman Gharesifard

This work provides a framework for data-driven control of discrete time systems with unknown input-output dynamics and outputs controllable by the inputs. This framework leads to stable and robust real-time control of the system such that a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Amit K. Sanyal

The linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem is a cornerstone of automatic control, and it has been widely studied in the data-driven setting. The various data-driven approaches can be classified as indirect (i.e., based on an identified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Florian Dörfler , Pietro Tesi , Claudio De Persis

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

Unlike traditional model-based reinforcement learning approaches that estimate system parameters from data, non-model-based data-driven control learns the optimal policy directly from input-state data without any intermediate model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Leilei Cui , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Petter N. Kolm , Grégoire G. Macqueron

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

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

The paper presents a data-driven predictive control framework based on an implicit input-output mapping derived directly from the signal matrix of collected data. This signal matrix model is derived by maximum likelihood estimation with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Mingzhou Yin , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

We study safe, data-driven control of (Markov) jump linear systems with unknown transition probabilities, where both the discrete mode and the continuous state are to be inferred from output measurements. To this end, we develop a receding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Mathijs Schuurmans , Panagiotis Patrinos

Considering discrete-time linear time-varying systems with unknown dynamics, controllers guaranteeing bounded closed-loop trajectories, optimal performance and robustness to process and measurement noise are designed via convex feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Benita Nortmann , Thulasi Mylvaganam

In this paper we provide direct data-driven expressions for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), the Kalman filter, and the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) controller using a finite dataset of noisy input, state, and output trajectories.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Abed AlRahman Al Makdah , Fabio Pasqualetti

Given the recent surge of interest in data-driven control, this paper proposes a two-step method to study robust data-driven control for a parameter-unknown linear time-invariant (LTI) system that is affected by energy-bounded noises.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Jiabao He , Xuan Zhang , Feng Xu , Junbo Tan , Xueqian Wang

This article proposes a data-driven $H_{\infty}$ control scheme for time-domain constrained systems based on model predictive control formulation. The scheme combines $H_{\infty}$ control and minimax model predictive control, enabling more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Wenhuang Wu , Lulu Guo , Nan Li , Hong Chen

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

The data-driven linear quadratic regulator (ddLQR) is a widely studied control method for unknown dynamical systems with disturbance. Existing approaches, both indirect, i.e., those that identify a model followed by model-based design, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Thierry Schwaller , Feiran Zhao , Florian Dörfler

Presented is an algorithm to synthesize an infinite-horizon LQR optimal feedback controller for continuous-time systems. The algorithm does not require knowledge of the system dynamics, but instead uses only a finite-length sampling of…

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

Predictive control, which is based on a model of the system to compute the applied input optimizing the future system behavior, is by now widely used. If the nominal models are not given or are very uncertain, data-driven model predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Hoang Hai Nguyen , Maurice Friedel , Rolf Findeisen

Data-driven predictive control methods based on the Willems' fundamental lemma have shown great success in recent years. These approaches use receding horizon predictive control with nonparametric data-driven predictors instead of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Mingzhou Yin , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

This article presents a unified approach to quadratic optimal control for both linear and nonlinear discrete-time systems, with a focus on trajectory tracking. The control strategy is based on minimizing a quadratic cost function that…

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