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This study explores the application of deep reinforcement learning (RL) to design an airfoil pitch controller capable of minimizing lift variations in randomly disturbed flows. The controller, treated as an agent in a partially observable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-03 Diederik Beckers , Jeff D. Eldredge

The integration of deep learning to reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled RL to perform efficiently in high-dimensional environments. Deep RL methods have been applied to solve many complex real-world problems in recent years. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Doug Creighton , Saeid Nahavandi

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is widely used across various industrial process control applications because of its straightforward implementation. However, it can be challenging to fine-tune the PID parameters in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Hozefa Jesawada , Amol Yerudkar , Carmen Del Vecchio , Navdeep Singh

We introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) environment to design and benchmark control strategies aimed at reducing drag in turbulent fluid flows enclosed in a channel. The environment provides a framework for computationally-efficient,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-09 L. Guastoni , J. Rabault , P. Schlatter , H. Azizpour , R. Vinuesa

This work proposes a control-informed reinforcement learning (CIRL) framework that integrates proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control components into the architecture of deep reinforcement learning (RL) policies. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Maximilian Bloor , Akhil Ahmed , Niki Kotecha , Mehmet Mercangöz , Calvin Tsay , Ehecactl Antonio Del Rio Chanona

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) can yield capable agents and control policies in several domains but is commonly plagued by prohibitively long training times. Additionally, in the case of continuous control problems, the applicability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jonas Eschmann , Dario Albani , Giuseppe Loianno

A reinforcement learning (RL) based methodology is proposed and implemented for online fine-tuning of PID controller gains, thus, improving quadrotor effective and accurate trajectory tracking. The RL agent is first trained offline on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Serhat Sönmez , Luca Montecchio , Simone Martini , Matthew J. Rutherford , Alessandro Rizzo , Margareta Stefanovic , Kimon P. Valavanis

A residual deep reinforcement learning (RDRL) approach is proposed by integrating DRL with model-based optimization for inverter-based volt-var control in active distribution networks when the accurate power flow model is unknown. RDRL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Qiong Liu , Ye Guo , Lirong Deng , Haotian Liu , Dongyu Li , Hongbin Sun

Several applications in the scientific simulation of physical systems can be formulated as control/optimization problems. The computational models for such systems generally contain hyperparameters, which control solution fidelity and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Suraj Pawar , Romit Maulik

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields of study. This survey focuses on deep learning solutions that target learning control policies for robotics applications. We carry out…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Lei Tai , Jingwei Zhang , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Since deep neural networks' resurgence, reinforcement learning has gradually strengthened and surpassed humans in many conventional games. However, it is not easy to copy these accomplishments to autonomous driving because state spaces are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

With the development of deep representation learning, the domain of reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful learning framework now capable of learning complex policies in high dimensional environments. This review summarises deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 B Ravi Kiran , Ibrahim Sobh , Victor Talpaert , Patrick Mannion , Ahmad A. Al Sallab , Senthil Yogamani , Patrick Pérez

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been proven to be a powerful paradigm for learning complex control policy autonomously. Numerous recent applications of DRL in robotic grasping have successfully trained DRL robotic agents end-to-end,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Zhixin Chen , Mengxiang Lin , Zhixin Jia , Shibo Jian

Data processing and analytics are fundamental and pervasive. Algorithms play a vital role in data processing and analytics where many algorithm designs have incorporated heuristics and general rules from human knowledge and experience to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Qingpeng Cai , Can Cui , Yiyuan Xiong , Wei Wang , Zhongle Xie , Meihui Zhang

Choosing an appropriate parameter set for the designed controller is critical for the final performance but usually requires a tedious and careful tuning process, which implies a strong need for automatic tuning methods. However, among…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Yuheng Lei , Jianyu Chen , Shengbo Eben Li , Sifa Zheng

The popularity of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods in economics have been exponentially increased. DRL through a wide range of capabilities from reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning (DL) for handling sophisticated dynamic…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-04-06 Amir Mosavi , Pedram Ghamisi , Yaser Faghan , Puhong Duan

This paper presents novel methods for tuning inverter controller gains using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). A Simulink-developed inverter model is converted into a dynamic link library (DLL) and integrated with a Python-based RL…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Shuvangkar Chandra Das , Tuyen Vu , Deepak Ramasubramanian , Evangelos Farantatos , Jianhua Zhang , Thomas Ortmeyer

Demonstration-guided reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for learning complex behaviors by leveraging both reward feedback and a set of target task demonstrations. Prior approaches for demonstration-guided RL treat every new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Karl Pertsch , Youngwoon Lee , Yue Wu , Joseph J. Lim

The controller is one of the most important modules in the autonomous driving pipeline, ensuring the vehicle reaches its desired position. In this work, a reinforcement learning based lateral control approach, despite the imperfections in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chengdong Wu , Sven Kirchner , Nils Purschke , Alois C. Knoll

Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) is inherently a reactive method, operating under the assumption that it starts with no prior knowledge of the system and entirely depends on trial-and-error for learning. This approach faces several…