arXiv:2503.22767cs.ROcs.CE2025-03被引 26

用物理仿真与优化算法,自动设计能变形的磁性软体机器人。

Co-design of magnetic soft robots with large deformation and contacts via material point method and topology optimization

  • 结合粒子法与拓扑优化,同时设计结构、磁化分布和磁场刺激。
  • 在2D/3D中实现多任务形变与移动,分钟级完成复杂设计。
  • 适合生物医疗、药物递送等需要远程控制软机器人的场景。

嵌入硬磁颗粒的磁性软体机器人可通过外部磁场实现无线驱动,具备远程、快速、精准控制能力,对生物医学应用极具前景。然而,其设计面临磁弹性动力学、大变形、固体接触、时变激励及姿态依赖载荷等多重复杂因素的耦合挑战。现有研究多依赖经验试错或仅在静态条件下独立设计激励或结构。本文提出一种拓扑优化框架,可同步优化结构、局部材料磁化与随时间变化的磁场刺激,考虑大变形、动态运动与固体接触。通过将广义拓扑优化与磁弹性物质点法结合,支持GPU加速并行仿真与自动微分敏感性分析。该框架已应用于2D/3D场景下的多任务形变与运动设计,能自主生成满足目标行为的机器人系统,无需人工干预。尽管存在非线性物理与庞大设计空间,仍保持高计算效率,所有案例均在数分钟内完成。该方法为智能软材料在超表面、药物递送及微创手术等领域的自主协同设计提供了计算基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Magnetic soft robots embedded with hard magnetic particles enable untethered actuation via external magnetic fields, offering remote, rapid, and precise control, which is highly promising for biomedical applications. However, designing such systems is challenging due to the complex interplay of magneto-elastic dynamics, large deformation, solid contacts, time-varying stimuli, and posture-dependent loading. As a result, most existing research relies on heuristics and trial-and-error methods or focuses on the independent design of stimuli or structures under static conditions. We propose a topology optimization framework for magnetic soft robots that simultaneously designs structures, location-specific material magnetization and time-varying magnetic stimuli, accounting for large deformations, dynamic motion, and solid contacts. This is achieved by integrating generalized topology optimization with the magneto-elastic material point method, which supports GPU-accelerated parallel simulations and auto-differentiation for sensitivity analysis. We applied this framework to design magnetic robots for various tasks, including multi-task shape morphing and locomotion, in both 2D and 3D. The method autonomously generates optimized robotic systems to achieve target behaviors without requiring human intervention. Despite the nonlinear physics and large design space, it demonstrates high computational efficiency, completing all cases within minutes. The framework provides a computational foundation for the autonomous co-design of active soft materials in applications such as metasurfaces, drug delivery, and minimally invasive procedures.

软体机器人磁性驱动拓扑优化物理模拟

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