Reinforcement Learning And Its Applications In Automated Control

The purpose of this paper is to give a brief introduction to reinforcement learning (RL) and show how it is applied in the field of automated control. It is written to be accessible to S3 undergraduate students and other people with little or no prior knowledge in the field of RL. The paper begins by describing the basic theory of RL. It will not go into detail but rather try to explain RL at an abstract level. Later it shows some examples from automated control, and finally gives a discussion of RL advantages for such tasks.