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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

In this report, linear quadratic regulator is used to design adaptive cruise control system. In the regulator, Q and R parameters vary with time according to current traffic situations. Phase-plant method is used to give constraints on Q…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Yuncheng Jiang

This article presents an error-state Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) formulation for robust trajectory tracking in quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The proposed approach leverages error-state dynamics and employs exponential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Micah Reich

Understanding the optimization landscape of linear quadratic regulation (LQR) problems is fundamental to the design of efficient reinforcement learning solutions. Recent work has made significant progress in characterizing the landscape of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Jingliang Duan , Jie Li , Yinsong Ma , Liye Tang , Guofa Li , Liping Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li , Lin Zhao

In this paper, a cooperative Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem is investigated for multi-input systems, where each input is generated by an agent in a network. The input matrices are different and locally possessed by the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Peihu Duan , Lidong He , Zhisheng Duan , Ling Shi

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

This paper is concerned with the linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control of continuous-time system with terminal state constraint. In particular, multiple agents exist in the system which can only access partial information of the matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Wenjing Yang , Zhaorong Zhang , Juanjuan Xu

Recent strides in nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) underscore a dependence on numerical advancements to efficiently and accurately solve large-scale problems. Given the substantial number of variables characterizing typical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wilson Jallet , Ewen Dantec , Etienne Arlaud , Justin Carpentier , Nicolas Mansard

End-to-end engineering design pipelines, in which designs are evaluated using concurrently defined optimal controllers, are becoming increasingly common in practice. To discover designs that perform well even under the misspecification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Yash Patel , Sahana Rayan , Ambuj Tewari

The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), which is arguably the most classical problem in control theory, was recently related to kernel methods in (Aubin-Frankowski, SICON, 2021) for finite dimensional systems. We show that this result extends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alain Bensoussan

We present and solve a Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) for the boundary control of the beam equation. We use the simple technique of completing the square to get an explicit solution. By decoupling the spatial frequencies we are able to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Arthur J. Krener

Optimal actuator design for a vibration control problem is calculated. The actuator shape is optimized according to the closed-loop performance of the resulting linear-quadratic regulator and a penalty on the actuator size. The optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 M. Sajjad Edalatzadeh , Dante Kalise , Kirsten A. Morris , Kevin Sturm

We study the problem of adaptive control of the stochastic linear quadratic regulator (LQR) with constraints that must be satisfied at every time step. Prior work on the multidimensional problem has shown $\tilde{O}(T^{2/3})$ regret and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Spencer Hutchinson , Nanfei Jiang , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

The closed-loop stability and infinite-horizon performance of receding-horizon approximations are studied for non-stationary linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems. The approach is based on a lifted reformulation of the optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Jintao Sun , Michael Cantoni

We consider a class of $\ell_0$-regularized linear-quadratic (LQ) optimal control problems. This class of problems is obtained by augmenting a penalizing sparsity measure to the cost objective of the standard linear-quadratic regulator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-31 MirSaleh Bahavarnia

Real-time optimal control remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, especially for nonlinear systems with stringent performance requirements. As one of the representative trajectory optimization algorithms, the iterative Linear Quadratic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Yue Wang , Haoyu Wang , Zhaoxing Li

The risk-neutral LQR controller is optimal for stochastic linear dynamical systems. However, the classical optimal controller performs inefficiently in the presence of low-probability yet statistically significant (risky) events. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Masoud Roudneshin , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

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

A novel method of an adaptive linear quadratic (LQ) regulation of uncertain continuous linear time-invariant systems is proposed. Such an approach is based on the direct self-tuning regulators design framework and the exponentially stable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Anton Glushchenko , Konstantin Lastochkin

We propose a new framework to design controllers for high-dimensional nonlinear systems. The control is designed through the iterative linear quadratic regulator (ILQR), an algorithm that computes control by iteratively applying the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Yizhe Huang , Boris Kramer