Autonomous control
RL for Control
Question
Research question
How can RL policies control dynamic physical systems while remaining bounded and measurable?
Related work
Connected systems
Experiment
Tabular Q-Learning on CartPole-v1
First bounded control baseline with an explicit evaluation threshold.
Evidence
Recorded outputs
Mean evaluation reward52.0 +/- 36.7
Threshold success0.0%
Best training episode191
Recorded runs1
Measured CartPole evidence only. It does not establish aircraft-control performance.
Conclusion
Current conclusion
The lab has a measurable learned-control baseline, but no evidence yet that the method is adequate for a nonlinear aerospace system.
Next question
What I would test next
What changes when a learned policy acts on a nonlinear aircraft model with actuator limits, disturbances, and explicit stability constraints?