This paper proposes a human-in-the-loop distributed consensus control approach for demand-side management across multiple buildings. Specifically, a novel framework is introduced in which a human acts as the non-autonomous leader in consensus control of cooperative buildings part…
We develop the Continuous Distributed Coupled Policy Gradient (CDCPG) algorithm for cooperative reinforcement learning in networked Markov decision processes with continuous state and action spaces. Each agent maintains a local actor over a bounded graph neighborhood, and a local…
This paper investigates the optimal safety control problem of nonlinear control systems by proposing novel high-order control barrier functions (HOCBFs). Different from zeroing HOCBFs, two novel HOCBFs are derived and the safety controllers are designed in an explicit way. Next,…