DittoGym: Learning to Control Soft Shape-Shifting Robots

S Huang, B Chen, H Xu, V Sitzmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13231, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robot co-design, where the morphology of a robot is optimized jointly with a learned policy
to solve a specific task, is an emerging area of research. It holds particular promise for soft …

Leveraging Hyperbolic Embeddings for Coarse-to-Fine Robot Design

H Dong, J Zhang, C Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00462, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-cellular robot design aims to create robots comprised of numerous cells that can be
efficiently controlled to perform diverse tasks. Previous research has demonstrated the …

MorphVAE: Advancing Morphological Design of Voxel-Based Soft Robots with Variational Autoencoders

J Song, Y Yang, W Peng, W Zhou, F Wang… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Soft robot design is an intricate field with unique challenges due to its complex and vast
search space. In the past literature, evolutionary computation algorithms, including novel …

Dynamics-Guided Diffusion Model for Robot Manipulator Design

X Xu, H Ha, S Song - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.15038, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present Dynamics-Guided Diffusion Model, a data-driven framework for generating
manipulator geometry designs for a given manipulation task. Instead of training different …

CompetEvo: Towards Morphological Evolution from Competition

K Huang, D Guo, X Zhang, X Ji, H Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.18300, 2024 - arxiv.org
Training an agent to adapt to specific tasks through co-optimization of morphology and
control has widely attracted attention. However, whether there exists an optimal …

A fuzzy structure processing mechanism for graph grammar

Y Liu, F Yang, J Liu, S Li - Journal of Logic and Computation, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A strict graph-matching mechanism brings normativeness to graph grammar but leads to
graph grammar insufficiency when processing fuzzy grammatical structures. To address this …

Task-Driven Computational Framework for Simultaneously Optimizing Design and Mounted Pose of Modular Reconfigurable Manipulators

M Lei, E Romiti, A Laurenz, NG Tsagarakis - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Modular reconfigurable manipulators enable quick adaptation and versatility to address
different application environments and tailor to the specific requirements of the tasks. Task …

[PDF][PDF] Composition Learning in “Modular” Robot Systems

J Hu - 2022 - ri.cmu.edu
Modular robot and multi-robot systems share a concept in common: composition, ie the
study of how parts can be combined so they can be used to achieve certain objectives. Our …

[PDF][PDF] Soft Scalable Self-Reconfigurable Modular Cellbot

R Bansal, R Bansal - Nature, 2000 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
Hazardous environments such as disaster affected areas, outer space, and radiation
affected areas are dangerous for humans. Autonomous systems which can navigate through …