Guidance and Control Networks with Periodic Activation Functions

Abstract: Inspired by the versatility of sinusoidal representation networks (SIRENs), we present a modified Guidance & Control Networks (G&CNETs) variant using periodic activation functions in the hidden layers. We demonstrate that the resulting G&CNETs train faster and achieve a lower overall training error on three different control scenarios on which G&CNETs have been tested previously. A preliminary analysis is presented in an attempt to explain the superior performance of the SIREN architecture for the particular types of tasks that G&CNETs excel on.