PROGRESSES IN SWIMMING STRATEGY OF SMART PARTICLES IN COMPLEX FLOWS
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摘要: 智能颗粒定义为可以根据环境的变化而主动调整自身在流场中运动的颗粒, 一般用于描述微小的游动物体, 如微生物、浮游生物和微纳机器人. 由于颗粒运动学特性和流场环境的复杂性, 探索智能颗粒的运动策略是一项具有现实意义与挑战性的研究. 近期强化学习算法被应用于智能颗粒的运动策略研究, 并取得一定进展. 本文将讨论强化学习在智能颗粒研究中的应用, 并介绍浮游生物运动策略的相关研究进展, 包括适用于海洋浮游生物的游动颗粒模型, 以及强化学习的基本原理和此类问题的研究框架. 海洋浮游生物的昼夜垂直迁移对其生存和繁衍至关重要, 生物学研究表明某些浮游生物可感知周围的流场信息, 但能否利用这些信息提高垂直方向游动效率仍是一个未知的问题. 基于这一背景, 相关研究考虑了重力沉降和颗粒形状对浮游生物垂直游动策略的影响. 研究发现细长的颗粒能够更加高效地垂直向上运动, 而重力沉降则导致智能游动策略发生较大变化. 在此基础上, 后续研究进一步考虑了局部流体信号的作用, 并讨论了基于局部信息在全局坐标系中定向运动的可能性. 当颗粒只能感受到局部流体信号时, 必须破坏动力学系统的对称性, 否则颗粒无法学到有效的垂向游动策略. 此外, 研究还发现强化学习能够利用流体信号背后的机制, 得到颗粒在二维定常流动和三维非定常湍流中高效垂直运动的策略. 这些智能游动策略依赖于本质的物理规律, 因此这些策略在更加复杂或真实的流动中也可能有优秀的表现.Abstract: Smart particles in the present study refer to the particles in fluid that can actively adjust their motions based on the changing environment, and they are usually used to describe micro-swimmers such as microorganisms, plankton, or micro-robots. Due to the complex dynamics of particles and the flow environment, exploring the swimming strategy of smart particles is challenging but of great practical significance. Recently, reinforcement learning has been adopted for exploring the swimming strategies of smart particles, and certain progress was made. Here, we discuss the application of reinforcement learning in the study of smart particles, and introduce the recent progresses in the swimming strategy of plankton, including the swimming particle model for marine plankton, and the framework of reinforcement learning. The vertical migration is vital to the survival and reproduction of plankton. Biological study suggested that some plankton can perceive information from local fluid environment, but whether this information can be used for accelerating vertical migration still remains unknown. In this context, researchers investigated the influence of gravitational settling and particle shape on the vertical swimming strategy of plankton. Swimmers with slender shape can navigate upward more efficiently, and gravitational settling results in significant changes in smart swimming strategies. Furthermore, successive studies were carried out to investigate the effect of local fluid signals, and to discuss the possibility of navigation in the global frame of reference with only local signals. When swimmers only access to local signals, they cannot learn any effective upward swimming strategy unless the rotational symmetry of the dynamics is broken. Moreover, it was also found that reinforcement learning can make use of the underlying physical mechanism of local signals, and obtain efficient swimming strategies for vertical migration in two-dimensional time-independent flows and three-dimensional turbulent flow. Because the mechanism behind these strategies is essential and robust, these strategies is expected to be effective in more complex and realistic flow environments.
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Key words:
- smart particles /
- reinforcement learning /
- plankton /
- vertical migration
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图 2 智能颗粒垂直运动速度vz随形状和重力沉降作用的变化[22]. 颗粒速度以流动的特征速度u0无量纲化. RL: 强化学习得到的智能策略, naive: 简单策略, settle: 考虑沉降作用
Figure 2. Vertical velocity of smart particles vz as functions of the effects of gravitational settling and particle shape [22]. Particle velocity is normalized by velocity scale of the background flow u0. RL: smart strategy found by reinforcement learning. Naive: naive strategy. Settle: the cases considering settling effect
图 3 (a)智能颗粒在二维Taylor-Green旋涡流动中的运动轨迹. 红点表示颗粒的初始位置, 背景为涡量云图. (b)智能颗粒与非智能颗粒当地流体垂直方向速度uy的概率密度分布(PDF)[23]
Figure 3. (a) Trajectories of smart particles in two-dimensional Taylor-Green vortex flow. Red dots represent the initial position of particles. Background contour shows the vorticity of fluid. (b) The probability distribution function (PDF) of the vertical velocity of local fluid uy[23]
4 (a)颗粒在冻结流场(frozen)与随时间变化的流场(DNS)中的垂直方向速度vz, 以及游动速度nzvs, 当地流体速度uz和沉降速度vg,z的贡献. smart 2D:
$ \mathrm{\Delta }{u}_{p} $ 流体信号下的智能策略; naive: 简单策略智能颗粒. (b)不同策略下颗粒在三维各向同性均匀湍流中的运动速度及各部分贡献. naive: 简单策略; 2D: Δup信号下的二维策略; 3D2S: Δup, Δuq信号下的三维策略; 3D4S: Snp, Snq, Δup, Δuq信号下的三维策略. (c)3D4S策略下的颗粒瞬时分布[24]4. (a) Vertical velocity of particles vz in frozen flow (frozen) and time-dependent flow (DNS), with the contributions of swimming velocity nzvs, local fluid velocity uz, and settling velocity vg,z. Smart 2D: smart strategy with signal
$ \mathrm{\Delta }{u}_{p} $ . Naive: naive strategy. (b) Vertical velocity of particles under different swimming strategies in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Naive: naive strategy. 2D: two-dimensional strategy with Δup signal. 3D2S: two-dimensional strategy with Δup, Δuq signals. 3D4S: two-dimensional strategy with Snp, Snq, Δup, Δuq signals. (c) Instanueous distribution of particles with 3D4S strategy[24]
图 4 (a)颗粒在冻结流场(frozen)与随时间变化的流场(DNS)中的垂直方向速度vz, 以及游动速度nzvs, 当地流体速度uz和沉降速度vg,z的贡献. smart 2D:
$ \mathrm{\Delta }{u}_{p} $ 流体信号下的智能策略; naive: 简单策略智能颗粒. (b)不同策略下颗粒在三维各向同性均匀湍流中的运动速度及各部分贡献. naive: 简单策略; 2D: Δup信号下的二维策略; 3D2S: Δup, Δuq信号下的三维策略; 3D4S: Snp, Snq, Δup, Δuq信号下的三维策略. (c)3D4S策略下的颗粒瞬时分布[24] (续)Figure 4. (a) Vertical velocity of particles vz in frozen flow (frozen) and time-dependent flow (DNS), with the contributions of swimming velocity nzvs, local fluid velocity uz, and settling velocity vg,z. Smart 2D: smart strategy with signal
$ \mathrm{\Delta }{u}_{p} $ . Naive: naive strategy. (b) Vertical velocity of particles under different swimming strategies in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Naive: naive strategy. 2D: two-dimensional strategy with Δup signal. 3D2S: two-dimensional strategy with Δup, Δuq signals. 3D4S: two-dimensional strategy with Snp, Snq, Δup, Δuq signals. (c) Instanueous distribution of particles with 3D4S strategy[24] (continued)表 1 二维与三维流场中独立流体信号分量
Table 1. Independent fluid signals in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) flows
Flow signals 2D 3D deformation rate ${S_{nn}},\;\;{S_{np}}$ ${S_{nn}},\;{S_{np}},\;{S_{nq}},\;{S_{pp}},\;{S_{pq}}$ relative angular velocity $\Delta {\varOmega _q}$ $\Delta {\varOmega _n},\;\Delta {\varOmega _p},\;\Delta {\varOmega _q}$ relative velocity $\Delta {u_n},\;\Delta {u_p}$ $\Delta {u_n},\;\Delta {u_p},\;\Delta {u_q}$ 
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