Enhancing sample efficiency in reinforcement-learning-based flow control: replacing the critic with an adaptive reduced-order model
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. In contrast to conventional actor–critic architectures, the proposed approach leverages a ROM to estimate the gradient information required for controller optimization. The design of the ROM structure incorporates physical insights. The ROM integrates a linear dynamical system and a neural ordinary differential equation (NODE) for estimating the nonlinearity in […]