Learning efficient navigation in vortical flow fields

oleh: Peter Gunnarson, Ioannis Mandralis, Guido Novati, Petros Koumoutsakos, John O. Dabiri

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-12-01

Deskripsi

Navigation and trajectory planning in environments with background flow, relevant for robotics, are challenging provided information only on local surrounding. The authors propose a reinforcement learning approach for time-efficient navigation of a swimmer through unsteady two-dimensional flows.