Doctoral Programme: INGEGNERIA INDUSTRIALE E DELL’INFORMAZIONE (PHD12) - XXXIII Ciclo - 2017Department: Department of Engineering and ArchitectureYear of the Programme: 3Field: AutomaticsSupervisor: Pellegrino Felice AndreaFinal thesis title: Feasibility Investigation on Several Reinforcement Learning Techniques to Improve the Performance of the FERMI Free-Electron Laser