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20242026
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6 papers

eess.SY2026

Solving Markov Decision Processes with Future Information via MPC

Shambhuraj Sawant, Akhil S Anand, Dirk Reinhardt +1

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used in industrial and robotic systems for enforcing constraints and embedding domain knowledge through finite-horizon optimization-based p…

eess.SY2025

Direct transfer of optimized controllers to similar systems using dimensionless MPC

Josip Kir Hromatko, Shambhuraj Sawant, Šandor Ileš +1

Scaled model experiments are commonly used in various engineering fields to reduce experimentation costs and overcome constraints associated with full-scale systems. The relevance…

cs.LG2025

Bi-Level Reinforcement Learning Pathway for Sim-to-Real Optimality

Akhil S Anand, Shambhuraj Sawant, Paavo Parmas +3

Training Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies using simulation models before deployment in real-world environments is a common strategy when real-world interaction is expensive. Th…

cs.AI2025

All AI Models are Wrong, but Some are Optimal

Akhil S Anand, Shambhuraj Sawant, Dirk Reinhardt +1

AI models that predict the future behavior of a system (a.k.a. predictive AI models) are central to intelligent decision-making. However, decision-making using predictive AI models…

eess.SY2024

Economic Model Predictive Control as a Solution to Markov Decision Processes

Dirk Reinhardt, Akhil S. Anand, Shambhuraj Sawant +1

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) offer a fairly generic and powerful framework to discuss the notion of optimal policies for dynamic systems, in particular when the dynamics are st…

math.OC2024

Data-Driven Predictive Control and MPC: Do we achieve optimality?

Akhil S Anand, Shambhuraj Sawant, Dirk Reinhardt +1

In this paper, we explore the interplay between Predictive Control and closed-loop optimality, spanning from Model Predictive Control to Data-Driven Predictive Control. Predictive…