A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theory and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter, J Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-
making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world …

Safe learning in robotics: From learning-based control to safe reinforcement learning

L Brunke, M Greeff, AW Hall, Z Yuan… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The last half decade has seen a steep rise in the number of contributions on safe learning
methods for real-world robotic deployments from both the control and reinforcement learning …

Review on model predictive control: An engineering perspective

M Schwenzer, M Ay, T Bergs, D Abel - The International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Model-based predictive control (MPC) describes a set of advanced control
methods, which make use of a process model to predict the future behavior of the controlled …

Learning-based model predictive control: Toward safe learning in control

L Hewing, KP Wabersich, M Menner… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recent successes in the field of machine learning, as well as the availability of increased
sensing and computational capabilities in modern control systems, have led to a growing …

All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings

J Drgoňa, J Arroyo, IC Figueroa, D Blum… - Annual Reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been proven that advanced building control, like model predictive control (MPC), can
notably reduce the energy use and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, despite …

Reinforcement learning for selective key applications in power systems: Recent advances and future challenges

X Chen, G Qu, Y Tang, S Low… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With large-scale integration of renewable generation and distributed energy resources,
modern power systems are confronted with new operational challenges, such as growing …

End-to-end safe reinforcement learning through barrier functions for safety-critical continuous control tasks

R Cheng, G Orosz, RM Murray, JW Burdick - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - aaai.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms have found limited success beyond simulated
applications, and one main reason is the absence of safety guarantees during the learning …

A survey on data center cooling systems: Technology, power consumption modeling and control strategy optimization

Q Zhang, Z Meng, X Hong, Y Zhan, J Liu, J Dong… - Journal of Systems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Data center is a fundamental infrastructure of computers and networking equipment to
collect, store, process, and distribute huge amounts of data for a variety of applications such …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building energy management

J Arroyo, C Manna, F Spiessens, L Helsen - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Buildings need advanced control for the efficient and climate-neutral use of their energy
systems. Model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) arise as two …

Learning for safety-critical control with control barrier functions

A Taylor, A Singletary, Y Yue… - Learning for Dynamics …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties of stability and
safety, and have been deployed successfully in multiple domains. Despite this success …