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This paper considers the discrete-time, stochastic LQR problem with $p$ steps of disturbance preview information where $p$ is finite. We first derive the solution for this problem on a finite horizon with linear, time-varying dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Jietian Liu , Laurent Lessard , Peter Seiler

This paper studies finite-horizon robust tracking control for discrete-time linear systems, based on input-output data. We leverage behavioral theory to represent system trajectories through a set of noiseless historical data, instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Liang Xu , Mustafa Sahin Turan , Baiwei Guo , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Iterative linear quadradic regulator(iLQR) has become a benchmark method to deal with nonlinear stochastic optimal control problem. However, it does not apply to delay system. In this paper, we extend the iLQR theory and prove new theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Cheng Ju , Yan Qin , Chunjiang Fu

We consider some certain nonlinear perturbations of the stochastic linear-quadratic optimization problems and study the connections between their solutions and the corresponding Markovian backward stochastic diferential equations (BSDEs).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Coskun Cetin

The technique of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation can be used to obtain a nontrivial bound on the optimal value of a nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). We explore concave quadratic inequalities that hold…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Jaehyun Park , Stephen Boyd

In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing a quadratic functional for a discrete-time linear stochastic system with multiplicative noise, on a standard probability space, in infinite time horizon. We show that the necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Peter Situmbeko Nalitolela , Nikolai Dokuchaev

Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control is a fundamental control paradigm that is studied in various fields such as engineering, computer science, economics, and neuroscience. It involves controlling a system with linear dynamics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Bahar Taşkesen , Dan A. Iancu , Çağıl Koçyiğit , Daniel Kuhn

This paper presents a novel model-free and fully data-driven policy iteration scheme for quadratic regulation of linear dynamics with state- and input-multiplicative noise. The implementation is similar to the least-squares temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Peter Coppens , Panagiotis Patrinos

Optimal control problems with discrete-valued inputs are inherently challenging due to their mixed-integer nature, rendering them generally intractable for real-time, safety-critical aerospace applications. Lossless convexification offers a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Felipe Arenas-Uribe , Hasan A. Poonawala , Jesse B. Hoagg

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful framework for sequential decision-making in dynamic environments, particularly when system parameters are unknown. This paper investigates RL-based control for entropy-regularized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Gabriel Diaz , Lucky Li , Wenhao Zhang

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

In this note, we study a class of indefinite stochastic McKean-Vlasov linear-quadratic (LQ in short) control problem under the control taking nonnegative values. In contrast to the conventional issue, both the classical dynamic programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Xun Li , Liangquan Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of robust control of a linear discrete-time system subject to bounded disturbances and to measurement and control budget constraints. Using Q-parameterization and a polytope containment method, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Antoine Aspeel , Kwesi Rutledge , Raphaël M. Jungers , Benoit Macq , Necmiye Özay

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…

Linear-Quadratic optimal controls are computed for a class of boundary controlled, boundary observed hyperbolic infinite-dimensional systems, which may be viewed as networks of waves. The main results of this manuscript consist in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Anthony Hastir , Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

In [1], the distributed linear-quadratic problem with fixed communication topology (DFT-LQ) and the sparse feedback LQ problem (SF-LQ) are formulated into a nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problem with affine constraints. Moreover, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Lechen Feng , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

This paper investigates a stochastic linear-quadratic (SLQ, for short) control problem regulated by a time-invariant Markov chain in infinite horizon. Under the $L^2$-stability framework, we study a class of linear backward stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Fan Wu , Xun Li , Xin Zhang

This paper mainly establishes the finite-horizon stochastic bounded real lemma, and then solves the $H_{\infty}$ control problem for discrete-time stochastic linear systems defined on the separable Hilbert spaces, thereby unifying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Cheng'ao Li , Ting Hou , Weihai Zhang , Feiqi Deng

We study a finite-horizon covariance steering problem for discrete-time Markov jump linear systems (MJLS) with both state- and control-dependent multiplicative noise. The objective is to minimize a quadratic running cost while steering the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Fangji Wang , Siddhartha Ganguly , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We analyze a sequential quadratic programming algorithm for solving a class of abstract optimization problems. Assuming that the initial point is in an $L^2$ neighborhood of a local solution that satisfies no-gap second-order sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Eduardo Casas , Mariano Mateos