Learning Optimal Control

Resources for learning control, optimal control, robotics, reinforcement learning

This list is everything but complete ...

Lectures/Online courses

Underactuated Robotics MIT 6.832

This lecture held by Russ Tedrake is an excellent resource covering very important concepts of optimal control.

Video

• 2015
• 2009

Online course

edX Underactuated Robotics

Material

Working notes for lecture and online course

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UCL Course on RL

A great introduction to Reinforcement Learning given by David Silver, one of the brains behind DeepMind.

Material

Lecture slides, exam with answers

Video

• Lecture 1-10

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Deep Reinforcement Learning CS294-112

Material

Lecture slides, homeworks

Video

Lectures

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Deep RL Bootcamp

Material & Video

Slides, videos

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Intelligent control through learning and optimization AMATH / CSE 579

Besides the lecture slides, Emo Todorov is also providing a list of relevant papers and general purpose readings.

Material

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~todorov/courses/amath579/

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Reinforcement Learning by Georgia Tech

Online course

Udacity Reinforcement Learning by Georgia Tech

Blogs

• Studywolf
• WildML
• argmin blog (especially An Outsider's Tour of Reinforcement Learning)

Articles

• Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Quick Overview

Tutorials

Videos

Deep Reinforcement Learning (David Silver, 2015)

ICML 2018: Tutorial Session: Optimization Perspectives on Learning to Control (Ben Recht)

Books

• Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control Vol. 1 + 2
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (PDF)
• Neuro-Dynamic Programming
• Probabilistic Robotics
• Springer Handbook of Robotics
• Robotics - Modelling, Planning, Control