arxivcs.ROcs.LGeess.SY2026-07-15
Flow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning
Andrea Maria Braghin, Nicolò Botteghi, Matteo Tomasetto, Andrea Manzoni, Gabriele Cazzulani
Autonomous robotic navigation in nonstationary time-varying fluid flows remains a fundamental challenge due to partial observability and the unpredictability of realistic environments. While classical optimal control frameworks employed in robotics require unrealistic a-priori gl…