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Hauptverfasser: Lizano-Villalobos, Andres, Ma, Fangyuan, Tang, Wentao, Sun, Wei, Tang, Xun
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Lizano-Villalobos, Andres
Ma, Fangyuan
Tang, Wentao
Sun, Wei
Tang, Xun
author_facet Lizano-Villalobos, Andres
Ma, Fangyuan
Tang, Wentao
Sun, Wei
Tang, Xun
contents Achieving precise control of colloidal self-assembly into specific patterns remains a longstanding challenge due to the complex process dynamics. Recently, machine learning-based state representation and reinforcement learning-based control strategies have started to accumulate popularity in the field, showing great potential in achieving an automatable and generalizable approach to producing patterned colloidal assembly. In this work, we adopted a machine learning-based optimal control framework, combining unsupervised learning and graph convolutional neural work for state observation with deep reinforcement learning-based optimal control policy calculation, to provide a data-driven control approach that can potentially be generalized to other many-body self-assembly systems. With Brownian dynamics simulations, we demonstrated its superior performance as compared to traditional order parameter-based state description, and its efficacy in obtaining ordered 2-dimensional spherical colloidal self-assembly in an electric field-mediated system with an actual success rate of 97%.
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spellingShingle Machine Learning-based Optimal Control for Colloidal Self-Assembly
Lizano-Villalobos, Andres
Ma, Fangyuan
Tang, Wentao
Sun, Wei
Tang, Xun
Soft Condensed Matter
Systems and Control
Achieving precise control of colloidal self-assembly into specific patterns remains a longstanding challenge due to the complex process dynamics. Recently, machine learning-based state representation and reinforcement learning-based control strategies have started to accumulate popularity in the field, showing great potential in achieving an automatable and generalizable approach to producing patterned colloidal assembly. In this work, we adopted a machine learning-based optimal control framework, combining unsupervised learning and graph convolutional neural work for state observation with deep reinforcement learning-based optimal control policy calculation, to provide a data-driven control approach that can potentially be generalized to other many-body self-assembly systems. With Brownian dynamics simulations, we demonstrated its superior performance as compared to traditional order parameter-based state description, and its efficacy in obtaining ordered 2-dimensional spherical colloidal self-assembly in an electric field-mediated system with an actual success rate of 97%.
title Machine Learning-based Optimal Control for Colloidal Self-Assembly
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16402