Learning efficient navigation in vortical flow fields

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter Gunnarson, Ioannis Mandralis, Guido Novati, Petros Koumoutsakos, John O. Dabiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27015-y