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Greenhouse Controller Showdown: Why Reinforcement Learning Lost to a Rule-Based Baseline
An open benchmark in GreenLight-Gym2 compares four greenhouse controllers, revealing why model-free RL (PPO) underperforms hand-tuned rules and how MPC and hybrid RL-in-MPC approaches can help.
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Reward Shaping and RL Debugging in Practice: A Systematic Guide from Oscillation to Convergence
Using an FPV drone RL project as a case study, this guide covers reward shaping principles, Bang-Bang control hacking, module isolation, single-variable debugging, and behavior visualization to solve common RL training issues.
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