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ArticleThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2025

Reinforcement learning of a biflagellate model microswimmer.

Sridhar Bulusu, Andreas Zöttl

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Article in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sridhar BulusuFaculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
Andreas ZöttlFaculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090, Vienna, Austria. andreas.zoettl@univie.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-9619

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Abstract

Many microswimmers are able to swim through viscous fluids by employing periodic non-reciprocal deformations of their appendages. Here we use a simple microswimmer model inspired by swimming biflagellates which consists of a spherical cell body and two small spherical beads representing the motion of the two flagella. Using reinforcement learning, we identify for different microswimmer morphologies quasi-optimized swimming strokes. For all studied cases, the identified strokes result in symmetric and quasi-synchronized beating of the two flagella beads. Interestingly, the stroke-averaged flow fields are of pusher type, and the observed swimming gaits outperform previously used biflagellate microswimmer models relying on predefined circular flagella-bead motion.

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