Model-Free DRL Control for Power Inverters: From Policy Learning to Real-Time Implementation via Knowledge Distillation

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Autores principales: Yang, Yang, Cui, Chenggang, Niu, Xitong, Liu, Jiaming, Zhang, Chuanlin
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Publicado: 2026
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author Yang, Yang
Cui, Chenggang
Niu, Xitong
Liu, Jiaming
Zhang, Chuanlin
author_facet Yang, Yang
Cui, Chenggang
Niu, Xitong
Liu, Jiaming
Zhang, Chuanlin
contents In response to the trade-off between control performance and computational burden hindering the deployment of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in power inverters, this paper presents a novel model-free control framework leveraging policy distillation. To handle the convergence instability and steady-state errors inherent in model-free agents, an error energy-guided hybrid reward mechanism is established to theoretically constrain the exploration space. More specifically, an adaptive importance weighting mechanism is integrated into the distillation architecture to amplify the significance of fluctuation regions, ensuring high-quality transfer of transient control logic by mitigating the observational bias dominated by steady-state data. This approach efficiently compresses the heavy DRL policy into a lightweight neural network, retaining the desired control performance while overcoming the computational bottleneck during deployment. The proposed method is validated through a hardware-based kilowatt-level experimental platform. Experimental comparison results with traditional methods demonstrate that the proposed technique reduces inference time to the microsecond level and achieves superior transient response speed and parameter robustness.
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spellingShingle Model-Free DRL Control for Power Inverters: From Policy Learning to Real-Time Implementation via Knowledge Distillation
Yang, Yang
Cui, Chenggang
Niu, Xitong
Liu, Jiaming
Zhang, Chuanlin
Systems and Control
93C83, 93C40, 68T07
In response to the trade-off between control performance and computational burden hindering the deployment of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in power inverters, this paper presents a novel model-free control framework leveraging policy distillation. To handle the convergence instability and steady-state errors inherent in model-free agents, an error energy-guided hybrid reward mechanism is established to theoretically constrain the exploration space. More specifically, an adaptive importance weighting mechanism is integrated into the distillation architecture to amplify the significance of fluctuation regions, ensuring high-quality transfer of transient control logic by mitigating the observational bias dominated by steady-state data. This approach efficiently compresses the heavy DRL policy into a lightweight neural network, retaining the desired control performance while overcoming the computational bottleneck during deployment. The proposed method is validated through a hardware-based kilowatt-level experimental platform. Experimental comparison results with traditional methods demonstrate that the proposed technique reduces inference time to the microsecond level and achieves superior transient response speed and parameter robustness.
title Model-Free DRL Control for Power Inverters: From Policy Learning to Real-Time Implementation via Knowledge Distillation
topic Systems and Control
93C83, 93C40, 68T07
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07964