Optimal transport in systems and control

Y Chen, TT Georgiou, M Pavon - Annual Review of Control …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Optimal transport began as the problem of how to efficiently redistribute goods between
production and consumers and evolved into a far-reaching geometric variational framework …

Stochastic control liaisons: Richard sinkhorn meets gaspard monge on a schrodinger bridge

Y Chen, TT Georgiou, M Pavon - Siam Review, 2021 - SIAM
In 1931--1932, Erwin Schrödinger studied a hot gas Gedankenexperiment (an instance of
large deviations of the empirical distribution). Schrödinger's problem represents an early …

Optimal steering of a linear stochastic system to a final probability distribution, Part I

Y Chen, TT Georgiou, M Pavon - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of steering a linear dynamical system with complete state
observation from an initial Gaussian distribution in state-space to a final one with minimum …

Optimal covariance control for stochastic systems under chance constraints

K Okamoto, M Goldshtein… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter addresses the optimal covariance control problem for stochastic discrete-time
linear systems subject to chance constraints. To the best of our knowledge, covariance …

Wasserstein proximal algorithms for the Schrödinger bridge problem: Density control with nonlinear drift

KF Caluya, A Halder - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the Schrödinger bridge problem (SBP) with nonlinear prior dynamics.
In control-theoretic language, this is a problem of minimum effort steering of a given joint …

Finite-horizon covariance control for discrete-time stochastic linear systems subject to input constraints

E Bakolas - Automatica, 2018 - Elsevier
This work deals with a finite-horizon covariance control problem for discrete-time, stochastic
linear systems with complete state information subject to input constraints. First, we present …

Optimal covariance control for discrete-time stochastic linear systems subject to constraints

E Bakolas - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work deals with an optimal covariance control problem for stochastic discrete-time
linear systems subject to mean sum constraints involving quadratic functions of the state and …

Finite-horizon covariance control of linear time-varying systems

M Goldshtein, P Tsiotras - 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of finite-horizon optimal control of a discrete linear time-varying
system subject to a stochastic disturbance and fully observable state. The initial state of the …

Reflected Schrödinger bridge: Density control with path constraints

KF Caluya, A Halder - 2021 American Control Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How to steer a given joint state probability density function to another over finite horizon
subject to a controlled stochastic dynamics with hard state (sample path) constraints? In …

Chance constrained covariance control for linear stochastic systems with output feedback

J Ridderhof, K Okamoto… - 2020 59th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of steering, via out-put feedback, the state distribution of a discrete-
time, linear stochastic system from an initial Gaussian distribution to a terminal Gaussian …