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Adaptive Dynamic Programming - A New Tool for Intelligent Control

Derong Liu
Professor
The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems


Abstract:Adaptive Dynamic Programming (ADP) has received increasing attention recently. ADP scheme is a design that approximates dynamic programming in the general case, i.e., approximates optimal control over time in noisy, nonlinear environments. There are many engineering problems in practice which can be formulated as cost maximization or minimization problems. Dynamic programming is a very useful tool in solving these problems.However, it is often computationally untenable to run dynamic programming due to the backward numerical process required for its solutions. Over the years, progress has been made to provide approximate solutions to dynamic programming. The idea is to approximate dynamic programming solutions by using neural networks to approximate the cost function. The methodology is a very useful tool for building intelligent agents/controllers in almost any environment. This talk will review the theoretical development of ADP.Details about the training of the neural networks used in the present design will also be presented. The pole balancing (inverted pendulum) problem will be used as the benchmark in this presentation to show the applicability of ADP.

Biography:Derong Liu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1994. Dr. Liu was a Staff Fellow with General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, MI, from 1993 to 1995. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, from 1995 to 1999. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999, and became a Full Professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science in 2006. He was selected for the "100 Talents Program" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. He has published 10 books. Dr. Liu has been an Associate Editor of several IEEE publications. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He was an elected AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-2008). He received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (1999), the University Scholar Award from University of Illinois (2006-2009), and the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2008). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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