Design of autonomously learning controllers using FYNESSE
With the growing number and difficulty of control problems there is an increasing demand for design methods that are easy to use. Fynesse fulfils this requirement: without knowledge of a process model the system learns a control policy. Optimization goals like time-optimal or energy-optimal control as well as restrictions of allowed manipulated variables or system states can be defined in a simple and flexible way. Fynesse only learns on basis of success and failure of former control interactions and, thus, learning can be carried out directly at the real process. A priori knowledge about the control policy as, for example, a fuzzy or linear control law considerably improves the learning process. Moreover, the learned policy can be interpreted as fuzzy control law which allows for easily checking the plausibility.