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This article proposes a model-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to design emergency control strategies for short-term voltage stability problems in power systems. Recent advances show promising results in model-free DRL-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Ramij R. Hossain , Tianzhixi Yin , Yan Du , Renke Huang , Jie Tan , Wenhao Yu , Yuan Liu , Qiuhua Huang

This paper develops a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-agent for navigation and control of autonomous surface vessels (ASV) on inland waterways. Spatial restrictions due to waterway geometry and the resulting challenges, such as high flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Niklas Paulig , Ostap Okhrin

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to a variety of problems during the past decade, and has provided effective control strategies in high-dimensional and non-linear situations that are challenging to traditional methods.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-07 Colin Vignon , Jean Rabault , Ricardo Vinuesa

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods suffer from poor sample efficiency. To overcome this limitation, this work introduces an adaptive reduced-order-model (ROM)-based reinforcement learning framework for active flow control.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zesheng Yao , Zhen-Hua Wan , Canjun Yang , Qingchao Xia , Mengqi Zhang

This paper focuses on developing a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) control strategy to mitigate aerodynamic forces acting on a three dimensional (3D) square cylinder under high Reynolds number flow conditions. Four jets situated at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-24 Lei Yan , Gang Hu , Wenli Chen , Bernd R. Noack

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a powerful tool for complex decision-making in machine learning and AI. However, traditional methods often assume perfect action execution, overlooking the uncertainties and deviations between an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Oren Fivel , Matan Rudman , Kobi Cohen

The present study applies a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm to Active Flow Control (AFC) of a two-dimensional flow around a confined square cylinder. Specifically, the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm is employed to modulate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-27 Wang Jia , Hang Xu

We present a deep reinforcement learning approach to a classical problem in fluid dynamics, i.e., the reduction of the drag of a bluff body. We cast the problem as a discrete-time control with continuous action space: at each time step, an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-08 Enrico Ballini , Alberto Silvio Chiappa , Stefano Micheletti

Because the Navier-Stokes equations are dissipative, the long-time dynamics of a flow in state space are expected to collapse onto a manifold whose dimension may be much lower than the dimension required for a resolved simulation. On this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-12 Alec J. Linot , Michael D. Graham

High-fidelity modeling of turbulent flows is one of the major challenges in computational physics, with diverse applications in engineering, earth sciences and astrophysics, among many others. The rising popularity of high-fidelity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-06 Arvind Mohan , Don Daniel , Michael Chertkov , Daniel Livescu

Dynamic Rank Reinforcement Learning (DR-RL) approximations rely on static rank assumptions, limiting their flexibility across diverse linguistic contexts. Our method dynamically modulates ranks based on real-time sequence dynamics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Caner Erden

Active flow control for drag reduction with reinforcement learning (RL) is performed in the wake of a 2D square bluff body at laminar regimes with vortex shedding. Controllers parameterised by neural networks are trained to drive two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chengwei Xia , Junjie Zhang , Eric C. Kerrigan , Georgios Rigas

This paper focuses on the use of reinforcement learning (RL) as a machine-learning (ML) modeling tool for near-wall turbulence. RL has demonstrated its effectiveness in solving high-dimensional problems, especially in domains such as games.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Aurélien Vadrot , Xiang I. A. Yang , H. Jane Bae , Mahdi Abkar

This study presents a deep learning model-based reinforcement learning (DL-MBRL) approach for active control of two-dimensional (2D) wake flow past a square cylinder using antiphase jets. The DL-MBRL framework alternates between interacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-27 Meng Zhang , Mustafa Z. Yousif , Minze Xu , Haifeng Zhou , Linqi Yu , HeeChang Lim

The hypersonic unstart phenomenon poses a major challenge to reliable air-breathing propulsion at Mach 5 and above, where strong shock-boundary-layer interactions and rapid pressure fluctuations can destabilize inlet operation. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Trishit Mondal , Ameya D. Jagtap

While deep learning has shown tremendous success in a wide range of domains, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner to the design, training, and inference of such models. In this paper, we aim…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Rui Wang , Karthik Kashinath , Mustafa Mustafa , Adrian Albert , Rose Yu

This study focuses on the development of a simulation-driven reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimizing routing decisions in complex queueing network systems, with a particular emphasis on manufacturing and communication…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Fatima Al-Ani , Molly Wang , Jevon Charles , Aaron Ong , Joshua Forday , Vinayak Modi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising approach to solve complex control tasks by learning policies through interactions with the environment. However, the training of DRL policies requires large amounts of training experiences,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Hongpeng Cao , Mirco Theile , Federico G. Wyrwal , Marco Caccamo

Contemporary autopilot systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are far more limited in their flight envelope as compared to experienced human pilots, thereby restricting the conditions UAVs can operate in and the types of missions they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Eivind Bøhn , Erlend M. Coates , Signe Moe , Tor Arne Johansen

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for controlling and stabilizing the Twin Rotor Aerodynamic System (TRAS) at specific pitch and azimuth angles and tracking a given trajectory. The complex dynamics and non-linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zeyad Gamal , Youssef Mahran , Ayman El-Badawy