Patent Document ID: 20130178953
Application ID: 13807290
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. Method for controlling a processing operation of a workpiece by means of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent unit, comprising the steps of: (a) observing an interaction zone in the workpiece by means of at least one radiation sensor to generate at least one sensor signal s t , wherein the workpiece is processed using an actuator having an initial actuator value a t ; (b) determining a basis function φ(s t ) from the set of sensor signals s t ; (c) determining a reward function r t giving the probability of good results of the processing operation; (d) choosing a next actuator value a t+1 on the basis of a policy π depending on the reward function r t and the basis function φ(s t ); and (e) repeating the steps (a) to (d) for further time points to perform an RL controlled processing operation.