Machine Learning Control - Taming Nonlinear Dynamics and Turbulence (Hardcover, 2017)

Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Feedback in engineering and living systems.- 1.2 Benefits of feedback control.- 1.3 Challenges of feedback control.- 1.4 Feedback turbulence control is a grand challenge problem.- 1.5 Nature teaches us the control design.- 1.6 Outline of the book.- 1.7 Exercises.- 2 Machine learning control (MLC).- 2.1 Methods of machine learning.- 2.2 MLC with genetic programming.- 2.3 Examples.- 2.4 Exercises.- 2.5 Suggested reading.- 2.6 Interview with Professor Marc Schoenauer.- 3 Methods of linear control theory.- 3.1 Linear systems.- 3.2 Full-state feedback.- Linear quadratic regulator (LQR).- 3.3 Sensor-based state estimation.- Kalman filtering.- 3.4 Sensor-based feedback.- Linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG).- 3.5 System Identification and Model Reduction.- 3.6 Exercises.- 3.7 Suggested reading.- 4 Benchmarking MLC against linear control.- 4.1 Comparison of MLC with LQR on a linear oscillator.- 4.2 Comparison of MLC with Kalman filter on a noisy linear oscillator.- 4.3 Comparison of MLC with LQG for sensor-based feedback.- 4.4 Modifications for small nonlinearity.- 4.5 Exercises.- 4.6 Interview with Professor Shervin Bagheri.- 5 Taming nonlinear dynamics with MLC.- 5.1 Generalized mean-field system.- 5.2 Machine learning control.- 5.3 Derivation outline for the generalized mean-field model.- 5.4 Alternative control approaches.- 5.5 Exercises.- 5.6 Suggested reading.- 5.7 Interview with Professor Mark N. Glauser.- 6 Taming real world flow control experiments with MLC.- 6.1 Separation control over a backward-facing step.- 6.2 Separation control of turbulent boundary layers.- 6.3 Control of mixing layer growth.- 6.4 Alternative model-based control approaches.- 6.5 Implementation of MLC in experiments.- 6.6 Suggested reading.- 6.7 Interview with Professor David Williams.- 7 MLC tactics and strategy.- 7.1 The ideal flow control experiment.- 7.2 Desiderata of the control problem - from the definition to hardware choices.- 7.3 Time scales of MLC.- 7.4 MLC parameters and convergence.- 7.5 The imperfect experiment.- 8 Future developments.- 8.1 Methodological advances of MLC.- 8.2 System-reduction techniques for MLC - Coping with high-dimensional input and output.- 8.3 Future applications of MLC.- 8.4 Exercises.- 8.5 Interview with Professor Belinda Batten.- Glossary.- Symbols.- Abbreviations.- Matlab® Code: OpenMLC.- Bibliography.- Index.