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20192024
most citedGlobal Convergence of Policy Gradient Primal-dual Methods for Risk-constrained LQRs

8 citations · 25 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

eess.SY2024

Direct Adaptive Control of Grid-Connected Power Converters via Output-Feedback Data-Enabled Policy Optimization

Feiran Zhao, Ruohan Leng, Linbin Huang +3

Power electronic converters are becoming the main components of modern power systems due to the increasing integration of renewable energy sources. However, power converters may be…

eess.SY2024

Linear Convergence of Data-Enabled Policy Optimization for Linear Quadratic Tracking

Shubo Kang, Feiran Zhao, Keyou You

Data-enabled policy optimization (DeePO) is a newly proposed method to attack the open problem of direct adaptive LQR. In this work, we extend the DeePO framework to the linear qua…

math.OC2024

Asynchronous Parallel Policy Gradient Methods for the Linear Quadratic Regulator

Xingyu Sha, Feiran Zhao, Keyou You

Learning policies in an asynchronous parallel way is essential to the numerous successes of RL for solving large-scale problems. However, their convergence performance is still not…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

Policy Gradient Methods for the Cost-Constrained LQR: Strong Duality and Global Convergence

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You

In safety-critical applications, reinforcement learning (RL) needs to consider safety constraints. However, theoretical understandings of constrained RL for continuous control are…

eess.SY2024

Harnessing Data for Accelerating Model Predictive Control by Constraint Removal

Zhinan Hou, Feiran Zhao, Keyou You

Model predictive control (MPC) solves a receding-horizon optimization problem in real-time, which can be computationally demanding when there are thousands of constraints. To accel…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

Data-Enabled Policy Optimization for Direct Adaptive Learning of the LQR

Feiran Zhao, Florian Dörfler, Alessandro Chiuso +1

Direct data-driven design methods for the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) mainly use offline or episodic data batches, and their online adaptation has been acknowledged as an open…

math.OC2023

Data-enabled Policy Optimization for the Linear Quadratic Regulator

Feiran Zhao, Florian Dörfler, Keyou You

Policy optimization (PO), an essential approach of reinforcement learning for a broad range of system classes, requires significantly more system data than indirect (identification…

math.OC2022

Globally Convergent Policy Gradient Methods for Linear Quadratic Control of Partially Observed Systems

Feiran Zhao, Xingyun Fu, Keyou You

While the optimization landscape of policy gradient methods has been recently investigated for partially observed linear systems in terms of both static output feedback and dynamic…

math.OC2022

Convergence and Sample Complexity of Policy Gradient Methods for Stabilizing Linear Systems

Feiran Zhao, Xingyun Fu, Keyou You

System stabilization via policy gradient (PG) methods has drawn increasing attention in both control and machine learning communities. In this paper, we study their convergence and…

cs.NI2022

System-Level Evaluation of Beam Hopping in NR-Based LEO Satellite Communication System

Jingwei Zhang, Dali Qin, Chuili Kong +4

Satellite communication by leveraging the use of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites is expected to play an essential role in future communication systems through providing ubiquitous…

math.OC2022★ 3 cited

Data-driven Control of Unknown Linear Systems via Quantized Feedback

Feiran Zhao, Xingchen Li, Keyou You

Control using quantized feedback is a fundamental approach to system synthesis with limited communication capacity. In this paper, we address the stabilization problem for unknown…

math.OC2021★ 4 cited

Learning Stabilizing Controllers of Linear Systems via Discount Policy Gradient

Feiran Zhao, Xingyun Fu, Keyou You

Stability is one of the most fundamental requirements for systems synthesis. In this paper, we address the stabilization problem for unknown linear systems via policy gradient (PG)…

math.OC2021★ 8 cited

Global Convergence of Policy Gradient Primal-dual Methods for Risk-constrained LQRs

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You, Tamer Başar

While the techniques in optimal control theory are often model-based, the policy optimization (PO) approach directly optimizes the performance metric of interest. Even though it ha…

math.OC2021★ 2 cited

Infinite-horizon Risk-constrained Linear Quadratic Regulator with Average Cost

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You, Tamer Basar

The behaviour of a stochastic dynamical system may be largely influenced by those low-probability, yet extreme events. To address such occurrences, this paper proposes an infinite-…

eess.SY2020★ 5 cited

Primal-dual Learning for the Model-free Risk-constrained Linear Quadratic Regulator

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You

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 c…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Minimax Q-learning Control for Linear Systems Using the Wasserstein Metric

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You

Stochastic optimal control usually requires an explicit dynamical model with probability distributions, which are difficult to obtain in practice. In this work, we consider the lin…

eess.SY2019

Suspension Regulation of Medium-low-speed Maglev Trains via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Feiran Zhao, Keyou You, Shiji Song +2

The suspension regulation is critical to the operation of medium-low-speed maglev trains (mlsMTs). Due to uncertain environment, strong disturbances and high nonlinearity of the sy…