[HTML][HTML] Precision irrigation management using machine learning and digital farming solutions

EA Abioye, O Hensel, TJ Esau, O Elijah, MSZ Abidin… - AgriEngineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Freshwater is essential for irrigation and the supply of nutrients for plant growth, in order to
compensate for the inadequacies of rainfall. Agricultural activities utilize around 70% of the …

A review of reinforcement learning for autonomous building energy management

K Mason, S Grijalva - Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The area of building energy management has received a significant amount of interest in
recent years. This area is concerned with combining advancements in sensor technologies …

Deep reinforcement learning for autonomous driving: A survey

BR Kiran, I Sobh, V Talpaert, P Mannion… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of deep representation learning, the domain of reinforcement learning
(RL) has become a powerful learning framework now capable of learning complex policies …

Multi-objective dynamic economic emission dispatch using particle swarm optimisation variants

K Mason, J Duggan, E Howley - Neurocomputing, 2017 - Elsevier
Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is a bio-inspired swarm based approach to solving
optimisation problems. The algorithm functions as a result of particles traversing and …

Exploring applications of deep reinforcement learning for real-world autonomous driving systems

V Talpaert, I Sobh, BR Kiran, P Mannion… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become increasingly powerful in recent years,
with notable achievements such as Deepmind's AlphaGo. It has been successfully deployed …

Reward shaping for knowledge-based multi-objective multi-agent reinforcement learning

P Mannion, S Devlin, J Duggan… - The Knowledge …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The majority of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) implementations aim to optimize
systems with respect to a single objective, despite the fact that many real-world problems are …

Policy invariance under reward transformations for multi-objective reinforcement learning

P Mannion, S Devlin, K Mason, J Duggan, E Howley - Neurocomputing, 2017 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful and well-studied Machine Learning paradigm,
where an agent learns to improve its performance in an environment by maximising a …

A network aware approach for the scheduling of virtual machine migration during peak loads

M Duggan, J Duggan, E Howley, E Barrett - Cluster Computing, 2017 - Springer
Live virtual machine migration can have a major impact on how a cloud system performs, as
it consumes significant amounts of network resources such as bandwidth. Migration …

A meta optimisation analysis of particle swarm optimisation velocity update equations for watershed management learning

K Mason, J Duggan, E Howley - Applied Soft Computing, 2018 - Elsevier
Particle swarm optimisation (PSO) is a general purpose optimisation algorithm used to
address hard optimisation problems. The algorithm operates as a result of a number of …

Data driven hybrid edge computing-based hierarchical task guidance for efficient maritime escorting with multiple unmanned surface vehicles

J Xie, J Luo, Y Peng, S Xie, H Pu, X Li, Z Su… - Peer-to-Peer Networking …, 2020 - Springer
The advancement of hardware and software technology makes multiple cooperative
unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) utilized in maritime escorting with low cost and high …