4 papers
Fast Non-Episodic Adaptive Tuning of Robot Controllers with Online Policy Optimization
James A. Preiss, Fengze Xie, Yiheng Lin +2
We study online algorithms to tune the parameters of a robot controller in a setting where the dynamics, policy class, and optimality objective are all time-varying. The system fol…
The Price of Simplicity: Analyzing Decoupled Policies for Multi-Location Inventory Control
Yohan John, Vade Shah, James A. Preiss +2
What is the performance cost of using simple, decoupled control policies in inherently coupled systems? Motivated by industrial refrigeration systems, where centralized compressors…
MAGIC-VFM: Meta-learning Adaptation for Ground Interaction Control with Visual Foundation Models
Elena Sorina Lupu, Fengze Xie, James A. Preiss +3
Control of off-road vehicles is challenging due to the complex dynamic interactions with the terrain. Accurate modeling of these interactions is important to optimize driving perfo…
Online Policy Optimization in Unknown Nonlinear Systems
Yiheng Lin, James A. Preiss, Fengze Xie +4
We study online policy optimization in nonlinear time-varying dynamical systems where the true dynamical models are unknown to the controller. This problem is challenging because,…