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Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
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The HydroGym Reinforcement Learning Platform for Fluid Dynamics
arXiv:2512. 17534v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modeling and controlling fluids is critical across science and engineering.
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Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries
arXiv:2606. 26154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, yet training control policies for realistic environments remains an open challenge.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Discovers Generalizable Physically-Reasoned Fluid Control
arXiv:2606. 08405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While data-intensive deep reinforcement learning can optimize complex control policies, scientific discovery in physical systems fundamentally requires an interpretable chain of reasoning that connects physical evidence to structured control architectures.
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Flow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607. 13553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic navigation in nonstationary time-varying fluid flows remains a fundamental challenge due to partial observability and the unpredictability of realistic environments.
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Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Designs Physically-Reasoned Whitebox Fluid Control
The paper introduces a self‑evolving scientific agent that uses large language models and iterative code generation to build interpretable, physically‑reasoned white‑box controllers for complex systems. The agent deploys candidate controllers in simulations, diagnoses dynamic behavior from multimodal evidence, and refines source code until a robust policy is achieved. Applied to a nonlinear fluid‑structure interaction problem—a two‑joint dogfish swimmer navigating an unsteady wake—the agent autonomously designs a controller that consistently reaches targets across a wide range of conditions without retraining.
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Accelerating Visual Policy Learning with Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control
The paper introduces Sampling-Guided Policy Search (SGPS), a method that combines sampling-based model‑predictive control with first‑order policy gradients to accelerate visual policy learning for locomotion and manipulation tasks. SGPS starts with behavior cloning from sampled actions and then alternates between sampling‑based refinement and short‑horizon policy updates under varied initial states and dynamics. The approach is demonstrated on simulated Unitree Go2 and G1 robots, learning tasks such as obstacle traversal and bimanual carrying, and the distilled policies transfer zero‑shot to a real Go2 robot using onboard depth perception.