Hierarchical Planning with Deep Reinforcement Learning for 3D Navigation of Microrobots in Blood Vessels

Designing intelligent microrobots that can autonomously navigate and perform instructed routines in blood vessels, a crowded environment with complexities including Brownian disturbance, concentrated cells, confinement, different flow patterns, and diverse vascular geometries, can offer enormous opportunities and challenges in biomedical applications. Herein, a biological‐agent mimicking a hierarchical control scheme that enables a microrobot to efficiently navigate and execute customizable routines in simplified blood vessel environments is reported. The control scheme consists of two decoupled components: a high‐level controller decomposing complex navigation tasks into short‐ranged, simpler subtasks and a low‐level deep reinforcement learning (DRL) controller responsible for maneuvering microrobots to accomplish subtasks. The proposed DRL controller utilizes 3D convolutional neural networks and is capable of learning control policies directly from raw 3D sensory data. It is shown that such a control scheme achieves effective and robust decision‐making within unseen, diverse complicated environments and offers flexibility for customizable task routines. This study provides a proof of principle for designing intelligent control systems for autonomous navigation in vascular networks for microrobots.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

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Hierarchical Planning with Deep Reinforcement Learning for 3D Navigation of Microrobots in Blood Vessels ; day:26 ; month:09 ; year:2022 ; extent:10
Advanced intelligent systems ; (26.09.2022) (gesamt 10)

Urheber
Yang, Yuguang
Bevan, Michael A.
Li, Bo

DOI
10.1002/aisy.202200168
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022092715123417985692
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15.08.2025, 07:21 MESZ

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  • Yang, Yuguang
  • Bevan, Michael A.
  • Li, Bo

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