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Linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) is a landmark problem in the field of optimal control, which is the concern of this paper. Generally, LQR is classified into state-feedback LQR (SLQR) and output-feedback LQR (OLQR) based on whether the full…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Lechen Feng , Yuan-Hua Ni

This paper considers the Linear Quadratic Regulator problem for linear systems with unknown dynamics, a central problem in data-driven control and reinforcement learning. We propose a method that uses data to directly return a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

The principal task to control dynamical systems is to ensure their stability. When the system is unknown, robust approaches are promising since they aim to stabilize a large set of plausible systems simultaneously. We study linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Lenart Treven , Sebastian Curi , Mojmir Mutny , Andreas Krause

Policy optimization has drawn increasing attention in reinforcement learning, particularly in the context of derivative-free methods for linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problems with unknown dynamics. This paper focuses on characterizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Weijian Li , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We study derivative-free methods for policy optimization over the class of linear policies. We focus on characterizing the convergence rate of these methods when applied to linear-quadratic systems, and study various settings of driving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Dhruv Malik , Ashwin Pananjady , Kush Bhatia , Koulik Khamaru , Peter L. Bartlett , Martin J. Wainwright

This paper proposes a differentiable robust LQR layer for reinforcement learning and imitation learning under model uncertainty and stochastic dynamics. The robust LQR layer can exploit the advantages of robust optimal control and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ngo Anh Vien , Gerhard Neumann

A discrete-time stochastic LQ problem with multiplicative noises and state transmission delay is studied in this paper, which does not require any definiteness constraint on the cost weighting matrices. From some abstract representations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Yuan-Hua Ni , Cedric Ka-Fai Yiu , Huanshui Zhang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This research paper introduces a model-free optimal controller for discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems (MJLSs), employing principles from the methodology of reinforcement learning (RL). While Q-learning methods have demonstrated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Ehsan Badfar , Babak Tavassoli

The linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem has reemerged as an important theoretical benchmark for reinforcement learning-based control of complex dynamical systems with continuous state and action spaces. In contrast with nearly all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Benjamin Gravell , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Tyler Summers

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) is receiving more and more attentions due to its successful demonstrations outperforming human performance in certain challenging tasks. In our recent paper `primal-dual Q-learning framework for LQR…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Donghwan Lee , Jianghai Hu

This paper addresses the optimal covariance steering problem for stochastic discrete-time linear systems subject to probabilistic state and control constraints. A method is presented for efficiently attaining the exact solution of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we propose a sparsity-promoting feedback control design for stochastic linear systems with multiplicative noise. The objective is to identify a sparse control architecture that optimizes the closed-loop performance while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Yi Guo , Ognjen Stanojev , Gabriela Hug , Tyler Summers

We consider a joint sensor and controller design problem for linear Gaussian stochastic systems in which a weighted sum of quadratic control cost and the amount of information acquired by the sensor is minimized. This problem formulation is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Takashi Tanaka , Henrik Sandberg

For linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, the design of an optimal controller is a commonly encountered problem in many applications. Among all the optimization approaches available, the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) methodology certainly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Zilong Cheng , Jun Ma , Xiaocong Li , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Tong Heng Lee

In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-objective optimal control of a dynamical system with additive and multiplicative noises with given second moments and arbitrary probability distributions. The objectives are given by quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Ather Gattami

This paper is concerned with a kind of linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem of backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with partial information. The cost functional includes cross terms between the state and control, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Jialong Li , Zhiyong Yu , Wanying Yue

We propose a time-implicit, finite-element based space-time discretization of the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for the stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem with the stochastic heat equation driven by linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Andreas Prohl , Yanqing Wang

We present a data-driven method for solving the linear quadratic regulator problem for systems with multiplicative disturbances, the distribution of which is only known through sample estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Peter Coppens , Mathijs Schuurmans , Panagiotis Patrinos

We study model-free learning methods for the output-feedback Linear Quadratic (LQ) control problem in finite-horizon subject to subspace constraints on the control policy. Subspace constraints naturally arise in the field of distributed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Luca Furieri , Yang Zheng , Maryam Kamgarpour

This article explores the discrete-time stochastic optimal LQR control with delay and quadratic constraints. The inclusion of delay, compared to delay-free optimal LQR control with quadratic constraints, significantly increases the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Dawei Liu , Juanjuan Xu , huanshui Zhang