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CDC
2008
IEEE
117views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Event-based optimization for dispatching policies in material handling systems of general assembly lines
—A material handling (MH) system of a general assembly line dispatching parts from inventory to working buffers could be complicated and costly to operate. Generally it is extrem...
Yanjia Zhao, Qianchuan Zhao, Qing-Shan Jia, Xiaoho...
ISLPED
1999
ACM
91views Hardware» more  ISLPED 1999»
14 years 25 days ago
Stochastic modeling of a power-managed system: construction and optimization
-- The goal of a dynamic power management policy is to reduce the power consumption of an electronic system by putting system components into different states, each representing ce...
Qinru Qiu, Qing Wu, Massoud Pedram
FLAIRS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
State Space Reduction For Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
er provides new techniques for abstracting the state space of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). These techniques extend one of the recent minimization models, known as -reduction, ...
Mehran Asadi, Manfred Huber
ISAAC
2010
Springer
243views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Lower Bounds for Howard's Algorithm for Finding Minimum Mean-Cost Cycles
Howard's policy iteration algorithm is one of the most widely used algorithms for finding optimal policies for controlling Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). When applied to we...
Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Uri Zwick
AAAI
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Back to the Future for Consistency-Based Trajectory Tracking
Given a model of a physical process and a sequence of commands and observations received over time, the task of an autonomous controller is to determine the likely states of the p...
James Kurien, P. Pandurang Nayak