Courses: SYSC 576 / EE 456/556: Neural Networks II: Spring 2009

Course Syllabus (pdf)

Class Schedule (pdf)

Assignments

Term Project

Readings

Barto, A.G., "Connectionist Learning for Control: An Overview" (Chapter 1) and Werbos, P.J., "Overview of Designs and Capabilities" (Chapter 2) from "Neural Networks for Control", Miller, Sutton & Werbos, Eds, MIT Press, pp.5-66, 1991.
Lendaris, G.G. & T.T. Shannon, 1998, "Designing (Approximate) Optimal Controllers via DHP Adaptive Critics & Neural Networks", Draft of Invited Chapter for "The Handbook of Applied Computational Intelligence", CRC Press, Padget, Karayianis, & Zadeh, Eds. [book not published]
Lendaris, G.G. & J.S. Neidhoefer, 2004, "Guidance in the Use of Adaptive Critics for Control" Ch.4 in "Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming", Si, et al, Eds., IEEE Press & Wiley Interscience, pp. 97-124, 2004.
Neural Networks for Control Chapter 5 (Narendra)
Neural Networks for Control Chapter 12 (Nguyen & Widrow)
LinearHopfieldNNandConstrainedOptimization.1994
IJCNN05-FrameReadingProblem

Notes

DHP Tutorial from last term (Winter 2009). [Note: Double click on image in slides 51, 52, & 56 to play film clip.].

LendarisMay2,2008,SeminarTalk,PartI

LendarisMay2,2008,SeminarTalk,Part II

Faculty

George G. Lendaris

Graduate Assistant: Dave Lawrence (email: gdlawrence@comcast.net; office:SYSC207 (Harder House, Room 207)

Office Hours: 2:30 - 4:30 Thursdays

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