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We propose a simple, practical and intuitive approach to improve the performance of a conventional controller in uncertain environments using deep reinforcement learning while maintaining safe operation. Our approach is motivated by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Tom Staessens , Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been applied to real-world problems with increasing success. Such applications often require to put constraints on the agent's behavior. Existing algorithms for constrained RL (CRL) rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ted Moskovitz , Brendan O'Donoghue , Vivek Veeriah , Sebastian Flennerhag , Satinder Singh , Tom Zahavy

This paper presents a framework to tackle constrained combinatorial optimization problems using deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). To this end, we extend the Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) theory in order to deal with constraints in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ruben Solozabal , Josu Ceberio , Martin Takáč

Current and future high-contrast imaging instruments require extreme Adaptive Optics (XAO) systems to reach contrasts necessary to directly image exoplanets. Telescope vibrations and the temporal error induced by the latency of the control…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-04 Rico Landman , Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Vikram M. Radhakrishnan , Christoph U. Keller

This paper addresses the problem of learning control policies for mobile robots, modeled as unknown Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), that are tasked with temporal logic missions, such as sequencing, coverage, or surveillance. The MDP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yiannis Kantaros

In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning (RL) method for solving optimal false data injection attack problems in probabilistic Boolean control networks (PBCNs) where the attacker lacks knowledge of the system model. Specifically,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Xianlun Peng , Yang Tang , Fangfei Li , Yang Liu

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

Traditional linear control strategies have been extensively researched and utilized in many robotic and industrial applications and yet they do not respond to the total dynamics of the systems. To avoid tedious calculations for nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Kanishk . , Rushil Kumar , Vikas Rastogi , Ajeet Kumar

Despite decades of research and recent progress in adaptive control and reinforcement learning, there remains a fundamental lack of understanding in designing controllers that provide robustness to inherent non-asymptotic uncertainties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Benjamin Gravell , Tyler Summers

The decentralisation and unpredictability of new renewable energy sources require rethinking our energy system. Data-driven approaches, such as reinforcement learning (RL), have emerged as new control strategies for operating these systems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Marine Cauz , Adrien Bolland , Bardhyl Miftari , Lionel Perret , Christophe Ballif , Nicolas Wyrsch

Safe reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn policies that satisfy certain constraints before deploying them to safety-critical applications. Previous primal-dual style approaches suffer from instability issues and lack optimality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zuxin Liu , Zhepeng Cen , Vladislav Isenbaev , Wei Liu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Bo Li , Ding Zhao

This research paper introduces a model-free optimal controller for discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems (MJLSs), employing principles from the methodology of reinforcement learning (RL). While Q-learning methods have demonstrated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Ehsan Badfar , Babak Tavassoli

This paper is concerned with the design of algorithms based on systems of interacting particles to represent, approximate, and learn the optimal control law for reinforcement learning (RL). The primary contribution is that convergence rates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Anant A Joshi , Heng-Sheng Chang , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G Mehta , Sean P. Meyn

This paper presents a model-free reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to synthesize a control policy that maximizes the satisfaction probability of linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. Due to the consideration of environment and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Mingyu Cai , Shaoping Xiao , Baoluo Li , Zhiliang Li , Zhen Kan

In this paper, we study the outage minimization problem in a decode-and-forward cooperative network with relay uncertainty. To reduce the outage probability and improve the quality of service, existing researches usually rely on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Yuanzhe Geng , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Pengcheng Sun , Binyu Lu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful method for controlling dynamic systems, but its learning mechanism can lead to unpredictable actions that undermine the safety of critical systems. Here, we propose RL with Adaptive Regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Haozhe Tian , Homayoun Hamedmoghadam , Robert Shorten , Pietro Ferraro

This article studies inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) for the stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, where two agents are considered. A learner agent does not know the expert agent's performance cost function, but it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Zhongshi Sun , Guangyan Jia

We consider reinforcement learning (RL) methods for finding optimal policies in linear quadratic (LQ) mean field control (MFC) problems over an infinite horizon in continuous time, with common noise and entropy regularization. We study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Noufel Frikha , Huyên Pham , Xuanye Song

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been recognized as a promising tool to address the challenges in real-time control of power systems. However, its deployment in real-world power systems has been hindered by a lack of formal stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Yuanyuan Shi , Guannan Qu , Steven Low , Anima Anandkumar , Adam Wierman

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a central problem in artificial intelligence. This problem consists of defining artificial agents that can learn optimal behaviour by interacting with an environment -- where the optimal behaviour is defined…