Reinforcement Learning Applied to an Electric Water Heater: From Theory to Practice

no code implementations • 29 Nov 2015 • Frederik Ruelens, Bert Claessens, Salman Quaiyum, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska, Ronnie Belmans

A wellknown batch reinforcement learning technique, fitted Q-iteration, is used to find a control policy, given this feature representation.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning +1

Residential Demand Response Applications Using Batch Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations • 8 Apr 2015 • Frederik Ruelens, Bert Claessens, Stijn Vandael, Bart De Schutter, Robert Babuska, Ronnie Belmans

We propose a model-free Monte-Carlo estimator method that uses a metric to construct artificial trajectories and we illustrate this method by finding the day-ahead schedule of a heat-pump thermostat.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)