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Main Authors: Chatterjee, Maitreyi, Agarwal, Devansh, Chatterjee, Biplab
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18728
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author Chatterjee, Maitreyi
Agarwal, Devansh
Chatterjee, Biplab
author_facet Chatterjee, Maitreyi
Agarwal, Devansh
Chatterjee, Biplab
contents The transition to autonomous material systems necessitates adaptive control methodologies to maximize structural longevity. This study frames the self-healing process as a Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem within a Markov Decision Process (MDP), enabling agents to autonomously derive optimal policies that efficiently balance structural integrity maintenance against finite resource consumption. A comparative evaluation of discrete-action (Q-learning, DQN) and continuous-action (TD3) agents in a stochastic simulation environment revealed that RL controllers significantly outperform heuristic baselines, achieving near-complete material recovery. Crucially, the TD3 agent utilizing continuous dosage control demonstrated superior convergence speed and stability, underscoring the necessity of fine-grained, proportional actuation in dynamic self-healing applications.
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spellingShingle Reinforcement Learning for Self-Healing Material Systems
Chatterjee, Maitreyi
Agarwal, Devansh
Chatterjee, Biplab
Machine Learning
The transition to autonomous material systems necessitates adaptive control methodologies to maximize structural longevity. This study frames the self-healing process as a Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem within a Markov Decision Process (MDP), enabling agents to autonomously derive optimal policies that efficiently balance structural integrity maintenance against finite resource consumption. A comparative evaluation of discrete-action (Q-learning, DQN) and continuous-action (TD3) agents in a stochastic simulation environment revealed that RL controllers significantly outperform heuristic baselines, achieving near-complete material recovery. Crucially, the TD3 agent utilizing continuous dosage control demonstrated superior convergence speed and stability, underscoring the necessity of fine-grained, proportional actuation in dynamic self-healing applications.
title Reinforcement Learning for Self-Healing Material Systems
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18728