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A linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem is considered for mean-field stochastic differential equations with constant coefficients in an infinite horizon. The stabilizability of the control system is studied followed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Jianhui Huang , Xun Li , Jiongmin Yong

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

This paper is concerned with a backward stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with deterministic coefficients. The weighting matrices are allowed to be indefinite, and cross-product terms in the control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Jingrui Sun , Zhen Wu , Jie Xiong

The linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) is an efficient control method for linear and linearized systems. Typically, LQR is implemented in minimal coordinates (also called generalized or "joint" coordinates). However, other coordinates are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Jan Brüdigam , Zachary Manchester

A linear control system with quadratic cost functional over infinite time horizon is considered without assuming controllability/stabilizability condition and the global integrability condition for the nonhomogeneous term of the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Jianping Huang , Jiongmin Yong , Hua-Cheng Zhou

We consider the static output feedback control for Linear Quadratic Regulator problems with structured constraints under the assumption that system parameters are unknown. To solve the problem in the model free setting, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Shokichi Takakura , Kazuhiro Sato

This paper is concerned with a linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with fixed terminal states and integral quadratic constraints. A Riccati equation with infinite terminal value is introduced, which is uniquely solvable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Jingrui Sun

Risk-aware control, though with promise to tackle unexpected events, requires a known exact dynamical model. In this work, we propose a model-free framework to learn a risk-aware controller with a focus on the linear system. We formulate it…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Feiran Zhao , Keyou You

This paper studies the linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problem of unknown discrete-time systems via dynamic output feedback learning control. In contrast to the state feedback, the optimality of the dynamic output feedback control for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Kedi Xie , Martin Guay , Shimin Wang , Fang Deng , Maobin Lu

Lane-free vehicle movement has been recently proposed for connected automated vehicles (CAV) due to various potential advantages. One such advantage stems from the fact that incremental changes of the road width in lane-free traffic lead to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Milad Malekzadeh , Ioannis Papamichail , Markos Papageorgiou

Feedback control problems involving autonomous quadratic systems are prevalent, yet there are only a limited number of software tools available for approximating their solution due to the complexity of the problem. This paper represents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Jeff Borggaard , Lizette Zietsman

The optimal control problem for open quantum systems can be formulated as a time-dependent Lindbladian that is parameterized by a number of time-dependent control variables. Given an observable and an initial state, the goal is to tune the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Wenhao He , Tongyang Li , Xiantao Li , Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang , Ke Wang

Quantum optimal control for gate optimization aims to provide accurate, robust, and fast pulse sequences to achieve gate fidelities on quantum systems below the error correction threshold. Many methods have been developed and successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Dirk Heimann , Felix Wiebe , Tahereh Abad , Elie Mounzer , Tangyou Huang , Frank Kirchner , Shivesh Kumar

As it is popular known, Riccati equation is the key basic tool for optimal control in the modern control theory. The solvability conditions of optimal control, stabilization conditions and controller design are all based on the Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Huanshui Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic optimal control of discrete-time time-varying system with terminal state constraint. The main contribution is to propose a Q-learning algorithm for the optimal controller when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Juanjuan Xu , Jingmei Liu , Zhaorong Zhang , Wei Wang

We consider a general linear control system and a general quadratic cost, where the state evolves continuously in time and the control is sampled, i.e., is piecewise constant over a subdivision of the time interval. This is the framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

The optimal controller design problem for a linear, first-order spatially-invariant distributed parameter system is considered. Through a case study of the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem for the diffusion equation over the torus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Addie McCurdy , Andrew Gusty , Emily Jensen

Explicit solutions to optimal control problems are rarely obtainable. Of particular interest are the explicit solutions derived for minimax problems, providing a framework to address adversarial conditions and uncertainty. This work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Alba Gurpegui , Mark Jeeninga , Emma Tegling , Anders Rantzer

The quadratic optimal state feedback (LQR) is one of the most popular designs for linear systems and succeeds via the solution of the algebraic Riccati equation. The situation is different in the case of non-linear systems: the Riccati…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Boris Lohmann , Joscha Bongard

An optimal control law for networked control systems with a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) system as plant and networks between sensor and controller as well as between controller and actuator is proposed. This controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Marijan Palmisano , Martin Steinberger , Martin Horn