Enforcing hard constraints with soft barriers: Safe reinforcement learning in unknown stochastic environments

Y Wang, SS Zhan, R Jiao, Z Wang… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an
unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state …

How good are learning-based control vs model-based control for load shifting? Investigations on a single zone building energy system

Y Fu, S Xu, Q Zhu, Z O'Neill, V Adetola - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Both model predictive control (MPC) and deep reinforcement learning control (DRL) have
been presented as a way to approximate the true optimality of a dynamic programming …

Phyllis: Physics-Informed Lifelong Reinforcement Learning for Data Center Cooling Control

R Wang, Z Cao, X Zhou, Y Wen, R Tan - Proceedings of the 14th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown good performance in data center cooling
control for improving energy efficiency. The main challenge in deploying the DRL agent to …

Physics-Informed Data Denoising for Real-Life Sensing Systems

X Zhang, X Fu, D Teng, C Dong, K Vijayakumar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Sensors measuring real-life physical processes are ubiquitous in today's interconnected
world. These sensors inherently bear noise that often adversely affects performance and …

BEAR-Data: Analysis and Applications of an Open Multizone Building Dataset

Y Bian, X Fu, B Liu, R Rachala, RK Gupta… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce BEAR-Data, an open dataset that captures the dynamics of a large multi-zone
building by providing measurements of zone temperature and corresponding HVAC …

Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Strongly Delayed Feedback Through Auxiliary Short Delays

Q Wu, SS Zhan, Y Wang, Y Wang, CW Lin, C Lv… - Forty-first International … - openreview.net
Reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging in the common case of delays between events
and their sensory perceptions. State-of-the-art (SOTA) state augmentation techniques either …

Learning from Limited and Imperfect Data in Cyber-Physical System

S Xu - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Machine learning is seeping into every fabric in various practical domains such as
autonomous driving, wearable computing, and smart buildings. However, in the actual …