ep8 - Anuradha Annaswamy: Adaptive Control - From the "Brave Era" to Reinforcement Learning and Back
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Adaptive Control and Reinforcement Learning
The two fields reinforcement learning and adaptive control have evolved differently with different tools and more importantly different objectives. Both of them are trying to deal with problems that have uncertainties in them. But it's just that when you go and start unpacking it and go into the details, the statements that are being made and the tools that need to be employed start becoming different. Sometimes you have to put control before learning. You do control first and then you learn with hindsight. So I firmly believe this is one of the things that I think has been mentioned in the paper which will appear in the annual reviews, controls, robotics and automation for details.
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