Generalized reinforcement learning for building control using Behavioral Cloning

15 Reinforcement Learning for Building Environmental Control

During the last few decades, significant changes have been made in the area of building construction and management, especially regarding climate control and energy conservation. A significant turning point was reached in the early 70s with the oil crisis driving a movement for airtight buildings to minimize energy consumption. Unfortunately this turn resulted in a significant deterioration of ...

Reinforcement Learning for Building Environmental Control

Neuroevolutionary reinforcement learning for generalized control of simulated helicopters

This article presents an extended case study in the application of neuroevolution to generalized simulated helicopter hovering, an important challenge problem for reinforcement learning. While neuroevolution is well suited to coping with the domain's complex transition dynamics and high-dimensional state and action spaces, the need to explore efficiently and learn on-line poses unusual challeng...

Reinforcement Learning for Control

Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a principled way to control nonlinear stochastic systems with partly or even fully unknown dynamics. Recent advances in areas such as deep learning and adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) have led to significant inroads in applications from robotics, automotive systems, smart grids, game playing, traffic control, etc. This open track provides a forum of interac...

Instructional control of reinforcement learning: a behavioral and neurocomputational investigation.

Humans learn how to behave directly through environmental experience and indirectly through rules and instructions. Behavior analytic research has shown that instructions can control behavior, even when such behavior leads to sub-optimal outcomes (Hayes, S. (Ed.). 1989. Rule-governed behavior: cognition, contingencies, and instructional control. Plenum Press.). Here we examine the control of be...