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A novel strategy for generating datasets is developed within the context of drag prediction for automotive geometries using neural networks. A primary challenge in this space is constructing a training databse of sufficient size and…
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In this paper, we propose a novel reinforcement learning (RL) based path generation (RL-PG) approach for mobile robot navigation without a prior exploration of an unknown environment. Multiple predictive path points are dynamically…
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