Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning: Zero-Shot Transfer and Emergent Dynamics

arXiv:2610.08852 · cs.RO, cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-10-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-10-03

Updated: 2026-10-03

Code: https://github.com/rajneeshanand/DropletRunner

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hysteresis — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

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