arXiv:2503.16634cs.RO2025-03

用数学映射方法让仿真训练的机器人更好适应真实环境。

A Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping-based Framework for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Autonomous Robot Operations

  • 通过施瓦茨-克里斯托弗尔映射,把仿真中的控制指令适配到真实机器人。
  • 在路径追踪任务中使退化机器人的表现接近专家模型,显著缩小仿真与现实差距。
  • 适用于离散动作和连续控制两种场景,适合做仿真到现实迁移的开发者。

尽管先进仿真技术大幅加速了机器人研发,但实际部署时常因仿真与现实间的差异(即“仿真到现实差距”)导致性能下降。这种差距源于模型不准确、环境变化及意外干扰等因素。此外,系统随时间退化或配置微调也会引发模型偏差,影响方法有效性。本文提出一种轻量级保角映射框架,将专家教师模型的控制与规划策略迁移到能力较弱的退化学习者上。该方法利用施瓦茨-克里斯托弗尔映射(SCM),几何地将教师控制输入映射至学习者命令空间,确保操作一致性。为验证通用性,框架应用于两类典型控制与规划方法:1)离散运动基元指令迁移;2)连续模型预测控制(MPC)指令迁移。通过大量仿真与真实实验验证,结果表明该框架能有效缩小仿真到现实的差距,实现对教师指令的高精度传递。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Despite the remarkable acceleration of robotic development through advanced simulation technology, robotic applications are often subject to performance reductions in real-world deployment due to the inherent discrepancy between simulation and reality, often referred to as the "sim-to-real gap". This gap arises from factors like model inaccuracies, environmental variations, and unexpected disturbances. Similarly, model discrepancies caused by system degradation over time or minor changes in the system's configuration also hinder the effectiveness of the developed methodologies. Effectively closing these gaps is critical and remains an open challenge. This work proposes a lightweight conformal mapping framework to transfer control and planning policies from an expert teacher to a degraded less capable learner. The method leverages Schwarz-Christoffel Mapping (SCM) to geometrically map teacher control inputs into the learner's command space, ensuring maneuver consistency. To demonstrate its generality, the framework is applied to two representative types of control and planning methods in a path-tracking task: 1) a discretized motion primitives command transfer and 2) a continuous Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based command transfer. The proposed framework is validated through extensive simulations and real-world experiments, demonstrating its effectiveness in reducing the sim-to-real gap by closely transferring teacher commands to the learner robot.

仿真到现实保角映射机器人控制

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