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Learning Event-triggered Control from Data through Joint Optimization

2021

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We present a framework for model-free learning of event-triggered control strategies. Event-triggered methods aim to achieve high control performance while only closing the feedback loop when needed. This enables resource savings, e.g., network bandwidth if control commands are sent via communication networks, as in networked control systems. Event-triggered controllers consist of a communication policy, determining when to communicate, and a control policy, deciding what to communicate. It is essential to jointly optimize the two policies since individual optimization does not necessarily yield the overall optimal solution. To address this need for joint optimization, we propose a novel algorithm based on hierarchical reinforcement learning. The resulting algorithm is shown to accomplish high-performance control in line with resource savings and scales seamlessly to nonlinear and high-dimensional systems. The method’s applicability to real-world scenarios is demonstrated through experiments on a six degrees of freedom real-time controlled manipulator. Further, we propose an approach towards evaluating the stability of the learned neural network policies.

Author(s): Niklas Funk and Dominik Baumann and Vincent Berenz and Sebastian Trimpe
Journal: IFAC Journal of Systems and Control
Volume: 16
Pages: 100144
Year: 2021

Department(s): Empirical Inference, Intelligent Control Systems
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
Paper Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacsc.2021.100144
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468601821000055

Links: arXiv

BibTex

@article{funk2020learning,
  title = {Learning Event-triggered Control from Data through Joint Optimization},
  author = {Funk, Niklas and Baumann, Dominik and Berenz, Vincent and Trimpe, Sebastian},
  journal = {IFAC Journal of Systems and Control},
  volume = {16},
  pages = {100144},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ifacsc.2021.100144},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468601821000055}
}