The Feasibility of Reinforcement Learning as a replacement for Mixed-Integer Programming for Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles

As the world is currently actively trying to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels, large investments are done in renewable energy sources and ways are sought after to electrify fossil fuel-intensive sectors. In line with these developments, the number of electric vehicles requiring access to the electric power grid has exploded putting...

Intelligent signalized intersection management for mixed traffic using Deep Q-Learning

Signalized urban intersections are bottlenecks for traffic and cause congestion. To improve traffic signal plans, research efforts have been made to create self-adaptive traffic controllers, i.e. controllers which adapt in real-time to the current traffic demand based on connected vehicle data. Past research on self-adaptive controllers has...

Limit order placement optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Learning from patterns in cryptocurrency market data

For various reasons, financial institutions often make use of high-level trading strategies when buying and selling assets. Many individuals, irrespective or their level of prior trading knowledge, have recently entered the field of trading due to the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, which offer a low entry barrier for trading....