arXiv:2507.14061cs.RO2025-07被引 5

让机器人自适应调整身体形状表示,提升任务执行效率。

MorphIt: Flexible Spherical Approximation of Robot Morphology for Representation-driven Adaptation

  • 用可调参数的球体近似动态重构机器人形态
  • 生成速度比传统方法快100倍,精度更高
  • 适合需要实时交互与空间导航的机器人系统

如果机器人能根据任务需求重新思考自身的形态表示,会怎样?当前多数机器人将物理形态视为固定约束,无法灵活适配不同任务对计算效率与精度的不同要求。本文提出MorphIt,一种新型球体近似框架,将形态表示作为可调节资源。通过梯度优化实现任务驱动的形态自适应,支持显式控制精度与效率的权衡。相比依赖人工设计或仅用于可视化的僵化方法,MorphIt生成球体近似速度比优化类方法快100倍,同时保持更优几何保真度。定量评估显示,其在更少球体数量下实现更好网格逼近效果。与现有机器人系统无缝集成后,显著提升碰撞检测精度、接触丰富交互仿真及狭窄空间导航能力。通过动态匹配任务需求调整几何表示,机器人得以将物理形态作为主动资源,而非固定参数,为需持续平衡精度与计算可行性的操作场景开辟新可能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

What if a robot could rethink its own morphological representation to better meet the demands of diverse tasks? Most robotic systems today treat their physical form as a fixed constraint rather than an adaptive resource, forcing the same rigid geometric representation to serve applications with vastly different computational and precision requirements. We introduce MorphIt, a novel spherical approximation framework that treats morphological representation as a tunable resource. MorphIt enables automatic task-driven morphological adaptation through gradient-based optimization with tunable parameters that provide explicit control over the accuracy-efficiency tradeoff. Unlike existing approaches that rely on either labor-intensive manual specification or inflexible computational methods optimized for visualization rather than robotics, MorphIt generates spherical approximations up to 100x faster than optimization-based methods while maintaining superior geometric fidelity. Quantitative evaluations demonstrate that MorphIt outperforms baseline approaches and achieves better mesh approximation with fewer spheres. Through seamless integration with existing robotics infrastructure, MorphIt enables enhanced capabilities in collision detection accuracy, contact-rich interaction simulation, and navigation through confined spaces. By dynamically adapting geometric representations to task requirements, robots can now exploit their physical embodiment as an active resource rather than an inflexible parameter, opening new frontiers for manipulation in environments where physical form must continuously balance precision with computational tractability.

机器人形态球体近似自适应表示碰撞检测

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