Lyapunov design methods are used widely in control engineering to design controllers that achieve qualitative objectives, such as stabilizing a system or maintaining a system'...
Many popular optimization algorithms, like the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm (LMA), use heuristic-based "controllers" that modulate the behavior of the optimizer during ...
Solving in an efficient manner many different optimal control tasks within the same underlying environment requires decomposing the environment into its computationally elemental ...
This paper presents a novel framework called proto-reinforcement learning (PRL), based on a mathematical model of a proto-value function: these are task-independent basis function...
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is analyzed here as a tool for control system optimization. State and action spaces are assumed to be continuous. Time is assumed to be discrete, yet th...