Deep reinforcement learning with shallow controllers: An experimental application to PID tuning

NP Lawrence, MG Forbes, PD Loewen… - Control Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is an optimization-driven framework for producing control
strategies for general dynamical systems without explicit reliance on process models. Good …

Reinforcement Learning-Based Bi-Level strategic bidding model of Gas-fired unit in integrated electricity and natural gas markets preventing market manipulation

K Ren, J Liu, X Liu, Y Nie - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to its efficient operation and environment-friendly characteristic, gas-fired unit (GFU)
plays a more and more important role in electric power systems and natural gas systems. To …

A survey and comparative evaluation of actor‐critic methods in process control

D Dutta, SR Upreti - The Canadian Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Actor‐critic (AC) methods have emerged as an important class of reinforcement learning
(RL) paradigm that enables model‐free control by acting on a process and learning from the …

Inverter PQ control with trajectory tracking capability for microgrids based on physics-informed reinforcement learning

B She, F Li, H Cui, H Shuai… - … on Smart Grid, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) calls for an advanced active
and reactive power (PQ) control strategy in microgrids. To enhance the controllability and …

Dynamic sparse training for deep reinforcement learning

G Sokar, E Mocanu, DC Mocanu, M Pechenizkiy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents are trained through trial-and-error interactions
with the environment. This leads to a long training time for dense neural networks to achieve …

A novel dynamic operation optimization method based on multiobjective deep reinforcement learning for steelmaking process

C Liu, L Tang, C Zhao - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies a dynamic operation optimization problem for a steelmaking process.
The problem is defined to determine optimal operation parameters that bring smelting …

Machine learning algorithms used in PSE environments: A didactic approach and critical perspective

LF Fuentes-Cortés, A Flores-Tlacuahuac… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This work addresses recent developments for solving problems in process systems
engineering based on machine learning algorithms. A general description of most popular …

Safe chance constrained reinforcement learning for batch process control

M Mowbray, P Petsagkourakis… - Computers & chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reinforcement Learning (RL) controllers have generated excitement within the control
community. The primary advantage of RL controllers relative to existing methods is their …

Meta-reinforcement learning for the tuning of PI controllers: An offline approach

DG McClement, NP Lawrence, JU Backström… - Journal of Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
Meta-learning is a branch of machine learning which trains neural network models to
synthesize a wide variety of data in order to rapidly solve new problems. In process control …

TASAC: A twin-actor reinforcement learning framework with a stochastic policy with an application to batch process control

T Joshi, H Kodamana, H Kandath, N Kaisare - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their complex nonlinear dynamics and batch-to-batch variability, batch processes
pose a challenge for process control. Due to the absence of accurate models and resulting …