Safe Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Hydrogen Diesel Dual-Fuel Engines

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Main Authors: Sharma, Vasu, Winkler, Alexander, Norouzi, Armin, Andert, Jakob, Gordon, David, Guo, Hongsheng
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Published: 2025
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author Sharma, Vasu
Winkler, Alexander
Norouzi, Armin
Andert, Jakob
Gordon, David
Guo, Hongsheng
author_facet Sharma, Vasu
Winkler, Alexander
Norouzi, Armin
Andert, Jakob
Gordon, David
Guo, Hongsheng
contents The urgent energy transition requirements towards a sustainable future stretch across various industries and are a significant challenge facing humanity. Hydrogen promises a clean, carbon-free future, with the opportunity to integrate with existing solutions in the transportation sector. However, adding hydrogen to existing technologies such as diesel engines requires additional modeling effort. Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables interactive data-driven learning that eliminates the need for mathematical modeling. The algorithms, however, may not be real-time capable and need large amounts of data to work in practice. This paper presents a novel approach which uses offline model learning with RL to demonstrate safe control of a 4.5 L Hydrogen Diesel Dual-Fuel (H2DF) engine. The controllers are demonstrated to be constraint compliant and can leverage a novel state-augmentation approach for sample-efficient learning. The offline policy is subsequently experimentally validated on the real engine where the control algorithm is executed on a Raspberry Pi controller and requires 6 times less computation time compared to online Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization.
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spellingShingle Safe Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Hydrogen Diesel Dual-Fuel Engines
Sharma, Vasu
Winkler, Alexander
Norouzi, Armin
Andert, Jakob
Gordon, David
Guo, Hongsheng
Systems and Control
The urgent energy transition requirements towards a sustainable future stretch across various industries and are a significant challenge facing humanity. Hydrogen promises a clean, carbon-free future, with the opportunity to integrate with existing solutions in the transportation sector. However, adding hydrogen to existing technologies such as diesel engines requires additional modeling effort. Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables interactive data-driven learning that eliminates the need for mathematical modeling. The algorithms, however, may not be real-time capable and need large amounts of data to work in practice. This paper presents a novel approach which uses offline model learning with RL to demonstrate safe control of a 4.5 L Hydrogen Diesel Dual-Fuel (H2DF) engine. The controllers are demonstrated to be constraint compliant and can leverage a novel state-augmentation approach for sample-efficient learning. The offline policy is subsequently experimentally validated on the real engine where the control algorithm is executed on a Raspberry Pi controller and requires 6 times less computation time compared to online Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization.
title Safe Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Hydrogen Diesel Dual-Fuel Engines
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09826