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This page contains a representative selection of my publications, categorized and arranged in reverse chronological order. Use the "»" button to reveal an abstract of each publication, and "«" to hide the abstract again (requires Javascript).

Books

  • L. Busoniu, L. Tamas (editors), Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Springer, Series Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. February 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-26327-4. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, D. Ernst, Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming Using Function Approximators, CRC Press, Series Automation and Control Engineering. April 2010, 280 pages, ISBN 978-1439821084. »

Journal papers

  • T. Santejudean, L. Busoniu, Online learning control for path-aware global optimization with nonlinear mobile robots. Control Engineering Practice, vol. 126, 2022. »
  • M. Rosynski, L. Busoniu, A Simulator and First Reinforcement Learning Results for Underwater Mapping. Sensors, vol. 22, no. 14, 2022. »
  • M. Granzotto, R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Stable near-optimal control of nonlinear switched discrete-time systems: an optimistic planning-based approach. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 67, no. 5, pages 2298–2313, 2022. »
  • Z. Nagy, Zs. Lendek, L. Busoniu, TS fuzzy observer-based controller design for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 30, no. 2, pages 555–566, 2022. »
  • G. Feng, T.-M. Guerra, L. Busoniu, A.-T. Nguyen, S. Mohammad, Robust observer-based tracking control under actuator constraints for power-assisted wheelchairs. Control Engineering Practice, vol. 109, 2021. »
  • M. Granzotto, R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Finite-horizon discounted optimal control: stability and performance. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 2, pages 550–565, 2021. »
  • Z. Nagy, Zs. Lendek, L. Busoniu, Observer design for a class of nonlinear systems with nonscalar-input nonlinear consequents. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, 2020. »
  • L. Busoniu, V. Varma, J. Loheac, A. Codrean, O. Stefan, C. Morarescu, S. Lasaulce, Learning control for transmission and navigation with a mobile robot under unknown communication rates. Control Engineering Practice, vol. 100, 2020. »
  • D. Mezei, L. Tamas, L. Busoniu, Sorting Objects from a Conveyor Belt Using POMDPs with Multiple-Object Observations and Information-Gain Rewards. Sensors, vol. 20, no. 9, 2020. »
  • C. Morarescu, V. Varma, L. Busoniu, S. Lasaulce, Space-time budget allocation policy design for viral marketing. Nonlinear Analysis - Hybrid Systems, vol. 37, 2020. »
  • L. Busoniu, J. Ben Rejeb, I. Lal, I.-C. Morarescu, J. Daafouz, Optimistic minimax search for noncooperative switched control with or without dwell time. Automatica, vol. 112, 2020. »
  • G. Feng, L. Busoniu, T.M. Guerra, S. Mohammad, Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Energy Optimization of Power-Assisted Wheelchairs. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 12, pages 97340–9744, 2019. »
  • L. Busoniu, T. de Bruin, D. Tolic, J. Kober, I. Palunko, Reinforcement Learning for Control: Performance, Stability, and Deep Approximators. Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 46, pages 8–28, 2018. »
  • L. Busoniu, E.Pall, R. Munos, Continuous-action planning for discounted infinite-horizon nonlinear optimal control with Lipschitz values. Automatica, vol. 92, pages 100–108, 2018. »
  • K. Mathe, L. Busoniu, R. Munos, B. De Schutter, Optimistic planning with an adaptive number of action switches for near-optimal nonlinear control. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 67, 2018. »
  • R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control with Discounted Cost. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 6, pages 2736–2749, 2017. »
  • L. Busoniu, J. Daafouz, M.-C. Bragagnolo, C. Morarescu, Planning for optimal control and performance certification in nonlinear systems with controlled or uncontrolled switches. Automatica, vol. 78, pages 297–308, 2017. »
  • L. Busoniu, A. Daniels, R. Babuska, Online Learning for Optimistic Planning. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 55, pages 60–72, 2016. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Postoyan, J. Daafouz, Near-optimal Strategies for Nonlinear and Uncertain Networked Control Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 8, pages 2124–2139, 2016. »
  • K. Mathe, L. Busoniu, Vision and Control for UAVs: A Survey of General Methods and of Inexpensive Platforms for Infrastructure Inspection. Sensors, vol. 15, no. 7, pages 14887–14916, 2015. »
  • L. Busoniu, C. Morarescu, Topology-Preserving Flocking of Nonlinear Agents Using Optimistic Planning. Control Theory and Technology, vol. 13, no. 1, pages 70–81, 2015. »
  • L. Busoniu, C. Morarescu, Consensus for Black-Box Nonlinear Agents Using Optimistic Optimization. Automatica, vol. 50, no. 4, pages 1201–1208, 2014. »
  • I. Grondman, L. Busoniu, G. Lopes, R. Babuska, A Survey of Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning: Standard and Natural Policy Gradients. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 42, no. 6, pages 1291–1307, 2012. »
  • I. Grondman, M. Vaandrager, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, E. Schuitema, Efficient Model Learning Methods for Actor-Critic Control. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 42, no. 3, pages 591–602, 2012. »
  • S. Adam, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, Experience Replay for Real-Time Reinforcement Learning Control. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 42, no. 2, pages 201–212, 2012. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Cross-Entropy Optimization of Control Policies with Adaptive Basis Functions. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 41, no. 1, pages 196–209, 2011. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Approximate Dynamic Programming with a Fuzzy Parametrization. Automatica, vol. 46, no. 5, pages 804–814, 2010. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, A Comprehensive Survey of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics — Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 38, no. 2, pages 156–172, 2008. Recipient of the 2009 Andrew P. Sage Award for the best paper published annually in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. »

Contributions to books

  • M. Bragagnolo, C. Morarescu, L. Busoniu, P. Riedinger, Decentralized Formation Control in Fleets of Nonholonomic Robots with a Clustered Pattern. In Handling Uncertainty and Structure in Robot Control, L. Busoniu, L. Tamas, Editors, pages 313–333. Springer, 2016. »
  • E. Pall, L. Tamas, L. Busoniu, Vision-Based Quadcopter Navigation in Structured Environments. In Handling Uncertainty and Structure in Robot Control, L. Busoniu, L. Tamas, Editors, pages 265–290. Springer, 2016. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Munos, R. Babuska, A Review of Optimistic Planning in Markov Decision Processes. In Reinforcement Learning and Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Feedback Control, F. Lewis, D. Liu, Editors, series Computational Intelligence, pages 494–516. Wiley, 2012. »
  • L. Busoniu, A. Lazaric, M. Ghavamzadeh, R. Munos, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, Least-Squares Methods for Policy Iteration. In Reinforcement Learning: State of the Art, M. Wiering, M. van Otterlo, Editors, series Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, no. 12, pages 75–109. Springer, 2012. »
  • L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning. In Interactive Collaborative Information Systems, R. Babuska, F.C.A. Groen, Editors, series Studies in Computational Intelligence, no. 281, pages 3–44. Springer, 2010. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: An Overview. In Innovations in Multi-Agent Systems and Applications, D. Srinivasan, L. Jain, Editors, series Studies in Computational Intelligence, no. 310, pages 183–221. Springer, 2010. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Continuous-State Reinforcement Learning with Fuzzy Approximation. In Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III, K. Tuyls, A. Nowe, Z. Guessoum, D. Kudenko, Editors, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), vol. 4865, pages 27–43. Springer, 2008. »

Conference papers

  • B. Yousuf, Zs. Lendek, L. Busoniu, Exploration-Based Search for an Unknown Number of Targets using a UAV. In Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences (ICONS-22), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13–15 July 2022. »
  • M. Dragomir, V.M. Maer, L. Busoniu, The Co4AIR Marathon – A Matlab Simulated Drone Racing Competition. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS-22), pages 1219--1226, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 21–24 June 2022. »
  • T. Santejudean, L. Busoniu, V. Varma, C. Morarescu, A simple path-aware optimization method for mobile robots. In Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications (TA-22), pages 1–6, Nancy, France, 15–17 June 2022. »
  • V.M. Maer, L. Tamas, L. Busoniu, Underwater robot pose estimation using acoustic methods and intermittent position measurements at the surface. In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR-22), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 19–21 May 2022. »
  • T. Santejudean, L. Busoniu, Path-aware optimistic optimization for a mobile robot. In Proceedings 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-21), pages 3584–3590, Austin, US, 13–17 December 2021. »
  • I. Lal, C. Morarescu, J. Daafouz, L. Busoniu, Optimistic planning for near-optimal control of nonlinear systems with hybrid inputs. In Proceedings 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-21), pages 2486–2493, Austin, US, 13–17 December 2021. »
  • M. Granzotto, R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Exploiting homogeneity for the optimal control of discrete-time systems: application to value iteration. In Proceedings 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-21), pages 6006–6011, Austin, US, 13–17 December 2021. »
  • T. Natsakis, L. Busoniu, Predicting Intention of Motion During Rehabilitation Tasks of the Upper-Extremity. In 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), pages 6037–6040, online, 1–5 November 2021. »
  • M. Ndje, L. Bitjoka, A. Boum, D. Mbogne, L. Busoniu, J.C. Kamgang, G. Djogdom, Fast constrained nonlinear model predictive control for implementation on microcontrollers. In Proceedings 4th IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control (CESCIT-21), pages 19–24, Valenciennes, France, 5–7 July 2021. »
  • F. Gogianu, T. Berariu, M. Rosca, C. Clopath, L. Busoniu, R. Pascanu, Spectral normalisation for deep reinforcement learning: an optimisation perspective. In Proceedings International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-21), pages 3734–3744, online, 18–24 July 2021. »
  • M. Granzotto, R. Postoyan, D. Nesic, L. Busoniu, J. Daafouz, When to stop value iteration: stability and near-optimality versus computation. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), pages 412–424, MIT, US, 30–31 May 2021. »
  • Csanad Sandor, Szabolcs Pavel, Wieser Erik, Andreea Blaga, Peter Boda, Andrea-Orsolya Fulop, Adrian Ursache, Attila Zold, Aniko Kopacz, Botond Lazar, Karoly Szabo, Zoltan Tasnadi, Botond Trinfa, Lehel Csato, Dan Marius Tegzes, Marian Leontin Pop, Raluca Alexandra Tarziu, Mihai-Valentin Zaha, Sorin Mihai Grigorescu, Lucian Busoniu, Paula Raica, Levente Tamas, The ClujUAV student competition: A corridor navigation challenge with autonomous drones. In Proceedings 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC-20), Online (Berlin, Germany), 12–17 July 2020. »
  • K. Mirkamali, L. Busoniu, Cross Entropy Optimization of Action Modification Policies for Continuous-Valued MDPs. In Proceedings 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC-20), Online (Berlin, Germany), 12–17 July 2020. »
  • I. Lal, A. Codrean, L. Busoniu, Sliding mode control of a ball balancing robot. In Proceedings 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC-20), Online (Berlin, Germany), 12–17 July 2020. »
  • Z. Nagy, Zs. Lendek, L. Busoniu, Control and Estimation for Mobile Sensor-Target Problems with Distance-Dependent Noise. In Proceedings IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-20), Online (Denver, Colorado), 1–3 July 2020.
  • M. Granzotto, R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Optimistic planning for the near-optimal control of nonlinear switched discrete-time systems with stability guarantees. In Proceedings 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-19), Nice, France, 11–13 December 2019. »
  • R. Postoyan, M. Granzotto, L. Busoniu, B. Scherrer, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Stability guarantees for nonlinear discrete-time systems controlled by approximate value iteration. In Proceedings 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-19), Nice, France, 11–13 December 2019. »
  • L. Busoniu, J. Daafouz, C. Morarescu, Near-optimal control of nonlinear systems with simultaneous controlled and random switches. In 5th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences (ICONS-19), pages 268–273, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 21–23 August 2019. »
  • G. Feng, T.M. Guerra, A.T. Nguyen, L. Busoniu, S. Mohammad, Robust Observer-Based Tracking Control Design for Power-Assisted Wheelchairs. In 5th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Sciences (ICONS-19), pages 61–66, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 21–23 August 2019. »
  • A.-D. Mezei, L. Tamas, L. Busoniu, Sorting objects from a conveyor belt using active perception with a POMDP model. In 18th IEEE European Control Conference (ECC-19), pages 2466–2471, Napoli, Italy, 25–28 June 2019. »
  • I. Lal, M. Nicoara, A. Codrean, L. Busoniu, Hardware and Control Design of a Ball Balancing Robot. In 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits & Systems (DDECS-19), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 24–26 April 2019. »
  • M. Granzotto, R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Stability analysis of discrete-time finite-horizon discounted optimal control. In 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-18), pages 2322–2327, Miami, USA, 17–19 December 2018. »
  • C. Morarescu, V. Varma, L. Busoniu, S. Lasaulce, Space-time budget allocation for marketing over social networks. In Proceedings IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS-18), pages 211–216, Oxford, UK, 11–13 July 2018. »
  • L. Busoniu, V. S. Varma, I.-C. Morarescu, S. Lasaulce, Learning-based control for a communicating mobile robot under unknown rates. In IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-19), pages 267–272, Philadelphia, USA, 10–12 July 2019. »
  • G. Feng, L. Busoniu, T.M. Guerra, S. Mohammad, Reinforcement Learning for Energy Optimization Under Human Fatigue Constraints of Power-Assisted Wheelchairs. In IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-18), Milwaukee, USA, 27–29 June 2018. »
  • G. Feng, T.M. Guerra, S. Mohammad, L. Busoniu, Observer-Based Assistive Control Design Under Time-Varying Sampling for Power-Assisted Wheelchairs. In IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control (CESCIT-18), Faro, Portugal, 6–8 June 2018. »
  • C. Iuga, P. Dragan, L. Busoniu, Fall monitoring and detection for at-risk persons using a UAV. In IFAC Conference on Embedded Systems, Computational Intelligence and Telematics in Control (CESCIT-18), Faro, Portugal, 6–8 June 2018. »
  • G. Feng, T.M. Guerra, L. Busoniu, S. Mohammad, Unknown input observer in descriptor form via LMIs for power-assisted wheelchairs. In 36th Chinese Control Conference (CCC-17), Dalian, China, 26–28 July 2017. »
  • J. Xu, L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, Near-Optimal Control with Adaptive Receding Horizon for Discrete-Time Piecewise Affine Systems. In Proceedings 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-17), pages 4168–4173, Toulouse, France, 9–14 July 2017. »
  • S. Sabau, I.-C. Morarescu, L. Busoniu, A. Jadbabaie, Decoupled-Dynamics Distributed Control for Strings of Nonlinear Autonomous Agents. In IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-17), Seattle, USA, 24–26 May 2017. »
  • J. Ben Rejeb, L. Busoniu, I.-C. Morarescu, J. Daafouz, Near-Optimal Control of Nonlinear Switched Systems with Non-Cooperative Switching Rules. In IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-17), Seattle, USA, 24–26 May 2017. »
  • E. Pall, L. Tamas, L. Busoniu, Analysis and a Home Assistance Application of Online AEMS2 Planning. In Proceedings IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-16), Daejeon, Korea, 9–14 October 2016. »
  • J. Xu, T. van den Boom, L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, Model Predictive Control for Continuous Piecewise Affine Systems Using Optimistic Optimization. In Proceedings IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-16), Boston, USA, 6–8 July 2016. »
  • L. Busoniu, E. Pall, R. Munos, Discounted Near-Optimal Control of General Continuous-Action Nonlinear Systems Using Optimistic Planning. In Proceedings IEEE American Control Conference (ACC-16), Boston, USA, 6–8 July 2016. »
  • K. Mathe, L. Busoniu, L. Barabas, L. Miclea, J. Braband, C. Iuga, Vision-Based Control of a Quadrotor for an Object Inspection Scenario. In Proceedings 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS-16), pages 849–857, Arlington, USA, 7–10 June 2016. »
  • J. Xu, L. Busoniu, T. van den Boom, B. De Schutter, Receding-Horizon Control for Max-Plus Linear Systems with Discrete Actions Using Optimistic Planning. In Proceedings 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES-16), pages 398–403, Xi'an, China, 30 May – 1 June 2016. »
  • L. Busoniu, M.-C. Bragagnolo, J. Daafouz, C. Morarescu, Planning Methods for the Optimal Control and Performance Certification of General Nonlinear Switched Systems. In Proceedings 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-15), Osaka, Japan, 15–18 December 2015. »
  • T. Wensveen, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, Real-Time Optimistic Planning with Action Sequences. In Proceedings 20th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS-15), pages 923–930, Bucharest, Romania, 27–29 May 2015. »
  • R. Postoyan, L. Busoniu, D. Nesic, J. Daafouz, Stability of Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control with Discounted Cost. In Proceedings 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-14), pages 3903–3908, Los Angeles, USA, 15–17 December 2014. »
  • K. Mathe, L. Busoniu, R. Munos, B. De Schutter, Optimistic Planning with a Limited Number of Action Switches for Near-Optimal Nonlinear Control. In Proceedings 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-14), pages 3518–3523, Los Angeles, USA, 15–17 December 2014. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Munos, Elod Pall, An Analysis of Optimistic, Best-First Search for Minimax Sequential Decision Making. In Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL-14), pages 1–8, Orlando, USA, 10–13 December 2014. »
  • L. Busoniu, L. Tamas, Optimistic Planning for the Near-Optimal Control of General Nonlinear Systems with Continuous Transition Distributions. In Proceedings 19th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-14), pages 1910–1915, Cape Town, South Africa, 24–29 August 2014. »
  • E. Pall, K. Mathe, L. Tamas, L. Busoniu, Railway Track Following with the AR.Drone Using Vanishing Point Detection. In Proceedings 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR-14), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 22–24 May 2014. »
  • K. Mathe, L. Busoniu, L. Miclea, Optimistic Planning with Long Sequences of Identical Actions for Near-Optimal Nonlinear Control. In Proceedings 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR-14), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 22–24 May 2014. »
  • L. Busoniu, C. Morarescu, Consensus for Agents with General Dynamics Using Optimistic Optimization. In Proceedings 2013 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-13), Florence, Italy, 10–13 December 2013. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Postoyan, J. Daafouz, Near-Optimal Strategies for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems Using Optimistic Planning. In Proceedings 2013 American Control Conference (ACC-13), Washington DC, US, 17–19 June 2013. »
  • L. Busoniu, C. Morarescu, Optimistic Planning for Consensus. In Proceedings 2013 American Control Conference (ACC-13), Washington DC, US, 17–19 June 2013. »
  • R. Fonteneau, L. Busoniu, R. Munos, Optimistic Planning for Belief-Augmented Markov Decision Processes. In Proceedings 2013 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL-13), Singapore, 15–19 April 2013. »
  • L. Busoniu, A. Daniels, R. Munos, R. Babuska, Optimistic Planning for Continuous-Action Deterministic Systems. In Proceedings 2013 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL-13), Singapore, 15–19 April 2013. »
  • I. Grondman, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, Model-Learning Actor-Critic Algorithms: Performance Evaluation in a Motion Control Task. In Proceedings 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-12), pages 5272–5277, Maui, Hawaii, 10–13 December 2012. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Munos, Optimistic Planning for Markov Decision Processes. In Proceedings 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS-12), pages 182–189, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, 21–23 April 2012. »
  • M. Vaandrager, R. Babuska, L. Busoniu, G. Lopes, Imitation Learning with Non-Parametric Regression. In Proceedings 2012 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR-12), pages 91–96, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 24–27 May 2012. »
  • I. Grondman, M. Vaandrager, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, E. Schuitema, Actor-Critic Control with Reference Model Learning. In Proceedings 18th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-11), pages 14723–14728, Milano, Italy, 22 August–2 September 2011. »
  • S. Norrouzadeh, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Shaping Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings 18th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-11), Milano, Italy, 22 August–2 September 2011. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Approximate Reinforcement Learning: An Overview. In Proceedings 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL-11), pages 1–8, Paris, France, 11–15 April 2011. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Munos, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Optimistic Planning for Sparsely Stochastic Systems. In Proceedings 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL-11), pages 48–55, Paris, France, 11–15 April 2011. Part of the Special Session on Active Reinforcement Learning. »
  • E. Schuitema, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, P. Jonker, Control Delay in Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Dynamic Systems: A Memoryless Approach. In Proceedings 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-10), pages 3226–3231, Taipei, Taiwan, 18–22 October 2010. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Online Least-Squares Policy Iteration for Reinforcement Learning Control. In Proceedings 2010 American Control Conference (ACC-10), pages 486–491, Baltimore, United States, 30 June – 2 July 2010. »
  • L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, D. Ernst, Using Prior Knowledge to Accelerate Online Least-Squares Policy Iteration. In Proceedings 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR-10), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 28–30 May 2010. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Policy Search with Cross-Entropy Optimization of Basis Functions. In Proceedings 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL-09), pages 153–160, Nashville, United States, 30 March – 2 April 2009. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Fuzzy Partition Optimization for Approximate Fuzzy Q-iteration. In Proceedings 17th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-08), pages 5629–5634, Seoul, Korea, 6–11 July 2008. »
  • X. Yuan, L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, Reinforcement Learning for Elevator Control. In Proceedings 17th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-08), pages 2212–2217, Seoul, Korea, 6–11 July 2008. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, Consistency of Fuzzy Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE-08), pages 518–524, Hong Kong, 1–6 June 2008. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, Fuzzy Approximation for Convergent Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. In 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE-07), pages 968–973, London, United Kingdom, 23–26 July 2007. »
  • L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, Continuous-State Reinforcement Learning with Fuzzy Approximation. In Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (ALAMAS-07) Symposium, pages 21–35, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2–3 April 2007. »
  • L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Control of a Robotic Manipulator. In Proceedings 9th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV-06), pages 1347–1352, Singapore, 5–8 December 2006. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Survey. In Proceedings 9th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV-06), pages 527–532, Singapore, 5–8 December 2006. »
  • L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Multiagent Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive State Focus. In Proceedings 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC-05), pages 35–42, Brussels, Belgium, 17–18 October 2005. »

Theses

  • L. Busoniu, Optimistic Planning for Nonlinear Optimal Control and Networked Systems, habilitation thesis, 2015, 155 pages. »
  • L. Busoniu, Reinforcement Learning in Continuous State and Action Spaces, PhD thesis, 2008, 190 pages, ISBN 978-90-9023754-1. »

National journal papers

  • K. Mathe, L. Busoniu, L. Miclea, Optimistic Planning with Long Sequences of Identical Actions: An Extended Theoretical and Experimental Study. Acta Electrotehnica, vol. 56, no. 4, pages 27–34, 2015. »
  • L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, D. Ernst, Exploiting Policy Knowledge in Online Least-Squares Policy Iteration: An Empirical Study. Automation, Computers, Applied Mathematics, vol. 19, no. 4, pages 521–529, 2010. »

Abstracts, workshop presentations

  • L. Busoniu, A. Daniels, R. Munos, R. Babuska, Optimistic Planning for Continuous-Action Deterministic Systems. Presented at the 8emes Journees Francophones sur la Planification, la Decision et l'Apprentissage pour la conduite de systemes (JFPDA-13), Lille, France, 1–2 July 2013. »
  • L. Busoniu, R. Munos, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, Optimistic Planning for Sparsely Stochastic Systems. Presented at the 2011 Workshop on Monte-Carlo Tree Search: Theory and Applications, within the 21st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-11), Freiburg, Germany, 12 June 2011. »

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