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Learning-based methods, particularly Reinforcement Learning (RL), hold great promise for streamlining deployment, enhancing performance, and achieving generalization in the control of autonomous multirotor aerial vehicles. Deep RL has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jonas Eschmann , Dario Albani , Giuseppe Loianno

This study proposes a newly-developed deep-learning-based method to generate turbulent inflow conditions for spatially-developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) simulations. A combination of a transformer and a multiscale-enhanced…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Mustafa Z. Yousif , Meng Zhang , Linqi Yu , Ricardo Vinuesa , HeeChang Lim

The goal of many applications in energy and transport sectors is to control turbulent flows. However, because of chaotic dynamics and high dimensionality, the control of turbulent flows is exceedingly difficult. Model-free reinforcement…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Defne E. Ozan , Andrea Nóvoa , Luca Magri

We propose an open-source python platform for applications of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in fluid mechanics. DRL has been widely used in optimizing decision-making in nonlinear and high-dimensional problems. Here, an agent maximizes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Qiulei Wang , Lei Yan , Gang Hu , Chao Li , Yiqing Xiao , Hao Xiong , Jean Rabault , Bernd R. Noack

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven largely effective in obtaining stable locomotion gaits for legged robots. However, designing control algorithms which can robustly navigate unseen environments with obstacles remains an ongoing problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jose-Luis Holgado-Alvarez , Aryaman Reddi , Carlo D'Eramo

We systematically investigated a reinforcement learning (RL)-based closed-loop active flow control strategy to enhance the lift-to-drag ratio of a wing section with an NLF(1)-0115 airfoil at an angle of attack 5 degree. The effects of key…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Qiong Liu , Luis Javier Trujillo Corona , Fangjun Shu , Andreas Gross

In this paper, a turbulence model based on deep neural network is developed for turbulent flow around airfoil at high Reynolds numbers. According to the data got from the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) turbulence model, we build a neural network…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-29 Xuxiang Sun , Wenbo Cao , Yilang Liu , Linyang Zhu , Weiwei Zhang

Aerial operation in turbulent environments is a challenging problem due to the chaotic behavior of the flow. This problem is made even more complex when a team of aerial robots is trying to achieve coordinated motion in turbulent wind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Diego Patiño , Siddharth Mayya , Juan Calderon , Kostas Daniilidis , David Saldaña

Accurate control of autonomous marine robots still poses challenges due to the complex dynamics of the environment. In this paper, we propose a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach to train a controller for autonomous surface vessel…

We present a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based policy to compute dynamically feasible and spatially aware velocities for a robot navigating among mobile obstacles. Our approach combines the benefits of the Dynamic Window…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Utsav Patel , Nithish Kumar , Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy , Dinesh Manocha

Turbulence modeling is a classical approach to address the multiscale nature of fluid turbulence. Instead of resolving all scales of motion, which is currently mathematically and numerically intractable, reduced models that capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-10 Rui Fang , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Sauro Succi

Virtual character animation control is a problem for which Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a viable approach. While current work have applied RL effectively to portray physics-based skills, social behaviours are challenging to design reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Vihanga Gamage , Cathy Ennis , Robert Ross

Controlling turbulent dynamics remains a major challenge because of its chaotic, multi-scale dynamics, which strongly influence the performance of many fluid systems. Here we report REACT (Reinforcement Learning for Environmental Adaptation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Junjie Zhang , Chengwei Xia , Xianyang Jiang , Isabella Fumarola , Georgios Rigas

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for quadrotor flight control typically relies on Domain Randomization (DR) for sim-to-real transfer, resulting in overly conservative policies that struggle with dynamic disturbances. To overcome this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vishnu Saj , Sushil Vemuri , Dileep Kalathil , Moble Benedict

The rapid advancement of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft offers a promising opportunity to alleviate urban traffic congestion but is still limited by excessive power demands, especially during the takeoff phase. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Nathan M. Roberts , Xiaosong Du

This study investigates active flow control (AFC) of a 30P30N high-lift wing at a Reynolds number Re$_c$ = 450,000 and angle of attack $\alpha$ = 23$^\circ$ using wallresolved large-eddy simulations (LES). Two optimization strategies are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Ricard Montalà , Bernat Font , Oriol Lehmkuhl , Ricardo Vinuesa , Ivette Rodriguez

We investigate the applicability of machine learning based reduced order model (ML-ROM) to three-dimensional complex flows. As an example, we consider a turbulent channel flow at the friction Reynolds number of $Re_\tau=110$ in a minimum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Taichi Nakamura , Kai Fukami , Kazuto Hasegawa , Yusuke Nabae , Koji Fukagata

In this chapter, the regulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communication network is investigated in the presence of dynamic changes in the UAV lineup and user distribution. We target an optimal UAV control policy which is capable of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Ran Zhang , Duc Minh , Nguyen , Miao Wang , Lin X. Cai , Xuemin , Shen

Temporal information is essential to learning effective policies with Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, current state-of-the-art RL algorithms either assume that such information is given as part of the state space or, when learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Wenling Shang , Xiaofei Wang , Aravind Srinivas , Aravind Rajeswaran , Yang Gao , Pieter Abbeel , Michael Laskin

We demonstrate that deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) provides a highly effective strategy for the control and self-tuning of optical systems. Deep RL integrates the two leading machine learning architectures of deep neural networks and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Chang Sun , Eurika Kaiser , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz