Learning Control as Enabling Layer for Embodied Intelligence Research explored with Soft Robotic Swimming in diverse Flow Speeds

arXiv:2606.20660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots are valuable robophysical platforms for studying body-caudal undulatory locomotion, but their compliant bodies are difficult to control precisely under changing hydrodynamic loading. Conventional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) feedback stabilizes periodic undulation in static water, but can accumulate flow-dependent tracking delay and increasing inter-trial variability when environmental flow becomes non-trivial. Here, we evalua...