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One problem with researching cognitive modeling and reinforcement learning (RL) is that researchers spend too much time on setting up an appropriate computational framework for their experiments. Many open source implementations of current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jan Dohmen , Frank Röder , Manfred Eppe

Reinforcement learning (RL) controllers are flexible and performant but rarely guarantee safety. Safety filters impart hard safety guarantees to RL controllers while maintaining flexibility. However, safety filters can cause undesired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Federico Pizarro Bejarano , Lukas Brunke , Angela P. Schoellig

The SWIMMER environment is a standard benchmark in reinforcement learning (RL). In particular, it is often used in papers comparing or combining RL methods with direct policy search methods such as genetic algorithms or evolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Maël Franceschetti , Coline Lacoux , Ryan Ohouens , Antonin Raffin , Olivier Sigaud

Reinforcement learning is commonly associated with training of reward-maximizing (or cost-minimizing) agents, in other words, controllers. It can be applied in model-free or model-based fashion, using a priori or online collected system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Lukas Beckenbach , Pavel Osinenko , Stefan Streif

Reinforcement learning (RL) is promising for complicated stochastic nonlinear control problems. Without using a mathematical model, an optimal controller can be learned from data evaluated by certain performance criteria through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Minghao Han , Yuan Tian , Lixian Zhang , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

In this paper, we propose a novel cross-platform fault-tolerant surfacing controller for underwater robots, based on reinforcement learning (RL). Unlike conventional approaches, which require explicit identification of malfunctioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yuya Hamamatsu , Walid Remmas , Jaan Rebane , Maarja Kruusmaa , Asko Ristolainen

During their operation, due to shifts in environmental conditions, devices undergo various forms of detuning from their optimal settings. Typically, this is addressed through control loops, which monitor variables and the device…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 T. Crosta , L. Rebón , F. Vilariño , J. M. Matera , M. Bilkis

Nowadays, realistic simulation environments are essential to validate and build reliable robotic solutions. This is particularly true when using Reinforcement Learning (RL) based control policies. To this end, both robotics and RL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Matteo El-Hariry , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

Reinforcement learning (RL), while powerful and expressive, can often prioritize performance at the expense of safety. Yet safety violations can lead to catastrophic outcomes in real-world deployments. Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Lizhi Yang , Blake Werner , Massimiliano de Sa , Aaron D. Ames

Active flow control remains a significant challenge due to the high-dimensional, nonlinear nature of fluid dynamics. Quantum machine learning may prove effective in addressing these issues, given that quantum computing possesses superiority…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Hongfu Zhang , Hui Tang

Industry 4.0 systems have a high demand for optimization in their tasks, whether to minimize cost, maximize production, or even synchronize their actuators to finish or speed up the manufacture of a product. Those challenges make industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kallil M. C. Zielinski , Marcelo Teixeira , Richardson Ribeiro , Dalcimar Casanova

Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled advances in humanoid robot locomotion, yet most learning frameworks do not account for mechanical intelligence embedded in parallel actuation mechanisms due to limitations in simulator support for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yusuke Tanaka , Alvin Zhu , Quanyou Wang , Yeting Liu , Dennis Hong

In this paper, we propose a fast reinforcement learning (RL) control algorithm that enables online control of large-scale networked dynamic systems. RL is an effective way of designing model-free linear quadratic regulator (LQR) controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Tomonori Sadamoto , Aranya Chakrabortty , Jun-ichi Imura

The ability to prepare a physical system in a desired quantum state is central to many areas of physics such as nuclear magnetic resonance, cold atoms, and quantum computing. Yet, preparing states quickly and with high fidelity remains a…

Recent R1-Zero-like research further demonstrates that reasoning extension has given large language models (LLMs) unprecedented reasoning capabilities, and Reinforcement Learning is the core technology to elicit its complex reasoning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Anxiang Zeng , Haibo Zhang , Kaixiang Mo , Long Zhang , Shuman Liu , Yanhui Huang , Yawen Liu , Yuepeng Sheng , Yuwei Huang

Measurement is an essential component of robust and practical quantum computation. For superconducting qubits, the measurement process involves the effective manipulation of the joint qubit-resonator dynamics, and it should ideally provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Aniket Chatterjee , Jonathan Schwinger , Yvonne Y. Gao

Quantum many-body control is a central milestone en route to harnessing quantum technologies. However, the exponential growth of the Hilbert space dimension with the number of qubits makes it challenging to classically simulate quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Friederike Metz , Marin Bukov

The urgent energy transition requirements towards a sustainable future stretch across various industries and are a significant challenge facing humanity. Hydrogen promises a clean, carbon-free future, with the opportunity to integrate with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Vasu Sharma , Alexander Winkler , Armin Norouzi , Jakob Andert , David Gordon , Hongsheng Guo

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a popular machine learning paradigm for game playing, robotics control, and other sequential decision tasks. However, RL agents often have long learning times with high data requirements because they begin by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Matthew E. Taylor , Nicholas Nissen , Yuan Wang , Neda Navidi

Reinforcement Learning (RL) training is predominantly conducted in cost-effective and controlled simulation environments. However, the transfer of these trained models to real-world tasks often presents unavoidable challenges. This research…