Soft robots learn to crawl: Jointly optimizing design and control with sim-to-real transfer

C Schaff, A Sedal, MR Walter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04575, 2022 - arxiv.org
This work provides a complete framework for the simulation, co-optimization, and sim-to-real
transfer of the design and control of soft legged robots. The compliance of soft robots …

Rapidly evolving soft robots via action inheritance

S Liu, W Yao, H Wang, W Peng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The automatic design of soft robots characterizes as jointly optimizing structure and control.
As reinforcement learning is gradually used to optimize control, the time-consuming …

Modular robot design optimization with generative adversarial networks

J Hu, J Whitman, M Travers… - … Conference on Robotics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular robots are made up of a set of components which can be configured and
reconfigured to form customized robots for a wide range of tasks. Fully utilizing the flexibility …

Manyquadrupeds: Learning a single locomotion policy for diverse quadruped robots

M Shafiee, G Bellegarda, A Ijspeert - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10486, 2023 - arxiv.org
Learning a locomotion policy for quadruped robots has traditionally been constrained to
specific robot morphology, mass, and size. The learning process must usually be repeated …

Revolver: Continuous evolutionary models for robot-to-robot policy transfer

X Liu, D Pathak, KM Kitani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.05244, 2022 - arxiv.org
A popular paradigm in robotic learning is to train a policy from scratch for every new robot.
This is not only inefficient but also often impractical for complex robots. In this work, we …

Dmap: a distributed morphological attention policy for learning to locomote with a changing body

AS Chiappa, A Marin Vargas… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Biological and artificial agents need to deal with constant changes in the real world. We
study this problem in four classical continuous control environments, augmented with …

Decentralized motor skill learning for complex robotic systems

Y Guo, Z Jiang, YJ Wang, J Gao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in complex robotic systems
(eg. quadruped locomotion). In previous works, the RL-based controller was typically …

基于形态的具身智能研究: 历史回顾与前沿进展

刘华平, 郭迪, 孙富春, 张新钰 - 自动化学报, 2023 - aas.net.cn
具身智能强调智能受脑, 身体与环境协同影响, 更侧重关注智能体与环境的“交互”. 因此,
在具身智能的研究中, 智能体的物理形态与感知, 学习, 控制的关系起到至关重要的作用. 当前 …

Metarobotics for Industry and Society: Vision, Technologies, and Opportunities

EG Kaigom - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metarobotics aims to combine next generation wireless communication, multisense
immersion, and collective intelligence to provide a pervasive, itinerant, and noninvasive …

Sim-to-real transfer of co-optimized soft robot crawlers

C Schaff, A Sedal, S Ni, MR Walter - Autonomous Robots, 2023 - Springer
This work provides a complete framework for the simulation, co-optimization, and sim-to-real
transfer of the design and control of soft legged robots. Soft robots have “mechanical …