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We present a midpoint policy iteration algorithm to solve linear quadratic optimal control problems in both model-based and model-free settings. The algorithm is a variation of Newton's method, and we show that in the model-based setting it…

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This paper develops a method to learn optimal controls from data for bilinear systems without a priori knowledge of the system dynamics. Given an unknown bilinear system, we first characterize when the available data is suitable to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Zhenyi Yuan , Jorge Cortes

In this paper, we consider the adaptive linear quadratic Gaussian control problem, where both the linear transformation matrix of the state $A$ and the control gain matrix $B$ are unknown. The proposed adaptive optimal control only assumes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Nian Liu , Cheng Zhao , Shaolin Tan , Jinhu Lü

Designing data-driven controllers in the presence of noise is an important research problem, in particular when guarantees on stability, robustness, and constraint satisfaction are desired. In this paper, we propose a data-driven min-max…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yifan Xie , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgower

Many recent data-driven control approaches for linear time-invariant systems are based on finite-horizon prediction of output trajectories using input-output data matrices. When applied recursively, this predictor forms a dynamic system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Joowon Lee , Nam Hoon Jo , Hyungbo Shim , Florian Dörfler , Jinsung Kim

The convergence of policy gradient algorithms in reinforcement learning hinges on the optimization landscape of the underlying optimal control problem. Theoretical insights into these algorithms can often be acquired from analyzing those of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jingliang Duan , Wenhan Cao , Yang Zheng , Lin Zhao

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

A promising method for constructing a data-driven output-feedback control law involves the construction of a model-free observer. The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) optimal control policy can then be obtained by both policy-iteration (PI)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Liquan Lin , Haoyan Lin , Jie Huang

This paper studies the inverse optimal control problem for continuous-time linear quadratic regulators over finite-time horizon, aiming to reconstruct the control, state, and terminal cost matrices in the objective function from observed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yuexin Cao , Yibei Li , Zhuo Zou , Xiaoming Hu

In this article, we propose a data-enabled economic predictive control method for a class of nonlinear systems, which aims to optimize the economic operational performance while handling hard constraints on the system outputs. Two lifting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Mingxue Yan , Xuewen Zhang , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Xunyuan Yin

We examine the minimization of a quadratic cost functional composed of the output and the final state of abstract infinite-dimensional evolution equations in view of existence of solutions and optimality conditions. While the initial value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Timo Reis , Manuel Schaller

Controlling nonlinear systems, especially when data are being used to offset uncertainties in the model, is hard. A natural approach when dealing with the challenges of nonlinear control is to reduce the system to a linear one via change of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 C. De Persis , D. Gadginmath , F. Pasqualetti , P. Tesi

This paper presents a data-driven min-max model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems. Contrary to existing data-driven LPV control approaches, we assume that the scheduling signal is unknown during…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Yifan Xie , Julian Berberich , Felix Brändle , Frank Allgöwer

Learning to perform perfect tracking tasks based on measurement data is desirable in the controller design of systems operating repetitively. This motivates the present paper to seek an optimization-based design approach for iterative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Deyuan Meng , Jingyao Zhang

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

This paper studies the stochastic optimal control problem for systems with unknown dynamics. First, an open-loop deterministic trajectory optimization problem is solved without knowing the explicit form of the dynamical system. Next, a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Dan Yu , Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty

In this paper, we present a data-driven output feedback controller for nonlinear systems that achieves practical output regulation, using noise-free input/output measurement data. The proposed controller is based on (i) an inverse model of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Yeongjun Jang , Hamin Chang , Heein Park , Hyeonyeong Jang , Takashi Tanaka , Hyungbo Shim

We study the constrained linear quadratic regulator with unknown dynamics, addressing the tension between safety and exploration in data-driven control techniques. We present a framework which allows for system identification through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Sarah Dean , Stephen Tu , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht

Presented is an algorithm to synthesize the optimal infinite-horizon LQR 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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Sean Bowerfind , Matthew R. Kirchner , Gary Hewer

For the application of MPC design in on-line regulation or tracking control problems, several studies have attempted to develop an accurate model, and realize adequate uncertainty description of linear or non-linear plants of the processes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi , Zhongxue Gan