An efficient algorithm for solving linear equality-constrained LQR problems

We present a new algorithm for solving linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems with linear equality constraints. This is the first such exact algorithm that is guaranteed to have a runtime that is linear in the number of stages, as well as linear in the number of both state-only constraints as well as mixed state-and-control constraints, without imposing any restrictions on the problem instances. We also show how to easily parallelize this algorithm to run in parallel runtime logarithmic in the number of stages of the problem.