Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control

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Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems. In order to achieve learning under uncertainty, data-driven methods for identifying system models in real-time are also developed. The book illustrates the advantages gained from the use of a model and the use of previous experience in the form of recorded data through simulations and experiments. The book’s focus on deterministic systems allows for an in-depth Lyapunov-based analysis of the performance of the methods described during the learning phase and during execution. To yield an approximate optimal controller, the authors focus on theories and methods that fall under the umbrella of actor–critic methods for machine learning. They concentrate on establishing stability during the learning phase and the execution phase, and adaptive model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning, to assist readers in the learning process, which typically relies on instantaneous input-output measurements. This monograph provides academic researchers with backgrounds in diverse disciplines from aerospace engineering to computer science, who are interested in optimal reinforcement learning functional analysis and functional approximation theory, with a good introduction to the use of model-based methods. The thorough treatment of an advanced treatment to control will also interest practitioners working in the chemical-process and power-supply industry. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Optimal Control (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 1-16 Approximate Dynamic Programming (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 17-42 Excitation-Based Online Approximate Optimal Control (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 43-98 Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Optimal Control (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 99-148 Differential Graphical Games (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 149-193 Applications (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 195-225 Computational Considerations (Rushikesh Kamalapurkar, Patrick Walters, Joel Rosenfeld, Warren Dixon)....Pages 227-263 Back Matter ....Pages 265-293