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Main Authors: McCurdy, Addie, Collins, Isabel, Jensen, Emily
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03490
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author McCurdy, Addie
Collins, Isabel
Jensen, Emily
author_facet McCurdy, Addie
Collins, Isabel
Jensen, Emily
contents An unconstrained optimal control policy is completely decentralized if computing actuation for each subsystem only requires information directly available to its own subcontroller. Parameters that admit a completely decentralized optimal controller have been characterized in a variety of systems, but attempts to physically explain the phenomenon have been limited. As a step toward a general characterization of complete decentralization, this paper presents conditions for complete decentralization of Linear Quadratic Regulators for several simple cases and physically interprets these conditions with illustrative examples. These simple cases are then leveraged to characterize complete decentralization of more complex systems.
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spellingShingle Conditions for Complete Decentralization of the Linear Quadratic Regulator
McCurdy, Addie
Collins, Isabel
Jensen, Emily
Systems and Control
An unconstrained optimal control policy is completely decentralized if computing actuation for each subsystem only requires information directly available to its own subcontroller. Parameters that admit a completely decentralized optimal controller have been characterized in a variety of systems, but attempts to physically explain the phenomenon have been limited. As a step toward a general characterization of complete decentralization, this paper presents conditions for complete decentralization of Linear Quadratic Regulators for several simple cases and physically interprets these conditions with illustrative examples. These simple cases are then leveraged to characterize complete decentralization of more complex systems.
title Conditions for Complete Decentralization of the Linear Quadratic Regulator
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03490