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Fall 2016
Current medical imaging professional training uses an apprenticeship model with students following an established doctor and viewing their cases, in what is called a practicum. This posses an issue as students are limited to the cases available during their practicum. To resolve this automated...
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Data-Driven and Artificial Intelligence Approach to Dynamic Truck Fleet Dispatching and Shovel Allocation Planning in Open-Pit Mines
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An open-pit mine is a highly dynamic environment where different equipment resources are allocated to mining areas to extract metal-bearing rock and waste, for pit development, following a set flow of activities. The material mined is then transported through the mine road network to different...
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Spring 2024
Retrofitting buildings and optimizing their operation have been at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions over the past few decades. Intelligent control of building systems, such as Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), presents two clear benefits: it improves...
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Decision Frequency Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning Using Continuous Options with Open-Loop Policies
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In classic reinforcement learning(RL) for continuous control, agents make decisions at discrete and fixed time intervals. The duration between decisions becomes a crucial hyperparameter. Setting it too short may increase the problem’s difficulty by requiring the agent to make numerous decisions...
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Design and Optimal Operation of a Virtual Power Plant with Bidirectional Electric Vehicle Chargers
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Virtual power plants (VPPs) can enhance reliability and efficiency of power systems with a high share of renewables. However, their adoption largely depends on their profitability, which is difficult to maximize due to the heterogeneity of their components, different sources of uncertainty and...
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Spring 2024
Alarm floods present substantial challenges to industrial process safety, given their diverse causes and potential for severe consequences. Modern process industries involve sophisticated networks of devices that are interconnected in both upstream and downstream directions. The...
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2008
Lizotte, Daniel, Wang, Tao, Bowling, Michael, Schuurmans, Dale
Technical report TR08-16. We propose a dual approach to dynamic programming and reinforcement learning based on maintaining an explicit representation of visit distributions as opposed to value functions. An advantage of working in the dual is that it allows one to exploit techniques for...
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2006
Wang, Tao, Schuurmans, Dale, Bowling, Michael
Technical report TR06-26. We investigate the dual approach to dynamic programming and reinforcement learning, based on maintaining an explicit representation of stationary distributions as opposed to value functions. A significant advantage of the dual approach is that it allows one to exploit...
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Spring 2010
In this thesis, a Reinforcement Learning (RL) method called Sarsa is used to dynamically tune a PI-controller for a Continuous Stirred Tank Heater (CSTH) experimental setup. The proposed approach uses an approximate model to train the RL agent in the simulation environment before implementation...
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Spring 2023
Vision is one of the essential means for humans to perceive the world. Similarly, today's intelligent robot agents rely on camera images to perform complex tasks in the real world. Due to the ever-changing nature of the real world, intelligent robot agents must continually learn from...