arXiv:2602.01535cs.RO2026-02

用高效仿真联合优化火星车轮子和控制策略,提升越野性能。

Co-Design of Rover Wheels and Control using Bayesian Optimization and Rover-Terrain Simulations

  • 用连续体模型替代昂贵的颗粒模拟,实现全车闭环仿真。
  • 在3000次仿真中同时优化轮子参数与转向控制,提速20%以上。
  • 适合做行星探测器机械与控制协同设计的研究者使用。

虽然仿真对机器人系统优化至关重要,但可变形地形建模成本过高,长期限制了其在全车级非公路自主移动研究中的应用。例如,离散元方法(DEM)仿真通常仅限于单轮测试,难以体现轮子-整车-控制器间的耦合交互,无法实现机械设计与控制的联合优化。本文提出一种基于贝叶斯优化的框架,利用高保真、全车闭环的可变形地形仿真,协同设计火星车轮子几何结构与转向控制器参数。采用连续体表示模型(CRM)进行地形力学建模,评估不同复杂度路径下的候选设计方案,并在固定负载下拖拽运行。优化器在多目标框架下调整轮子参数(半径、宽度、履刺特征)与转向PID增益,平衡通过速度、轨迹跟踪误差和能耗。比较了轮子与控制器同时优化与分步优化两种策略,分析性能与计算成本的权衡。3000次全车仿真仅耗时5至9天,相比早期基于DEM的工作流节省数月时间。初步硬件实验表明,仿真优化的轮子设计在实物车上保持相对性能趋势。结果证明,可扩展的高保真仿真可使非公路车辆在可变形地形上实现机械与控制的实用协同优化,无需依赖代价高昂的DEM研究。相关仿真基础设施(脚本与模型)已开源,支持可复现性与后续研究。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While simulation is vital for optimizing robotic systems, the cost of modeling deformable terrain has long limited its use in full-vehicle studies of off-road autonomous mobility. For example, Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations are often confined to single-wheel tests, which obscures coupled wheel-vehicle-controller interactions and prevents joint optimization of mechanical design and control. This paper presents a Bayesian optimization framework that co-designs rover wheel geometry and steering controller parameters using high-fidelity, full-vehicle closed-loop simulations on deformable terrain. Using the efficiency and scalability of a continuum-representation model (CRM) for terramechanics, we evaluate candidate designs on trajectories of varying complexity while towing a fixed load. The optimizer tunes wheel parameters (radius, width, and grouser features) and steering PID gains under a multi-objective formulation that balances traversal speed, tracking error, and energy consumption. We compare two strategies: simultaneous co-optimization of wheel and controller parameters versus a sequential approach that decouples mechanical and control design. We analyze trade-offs in performance and computational cost. Across 3,000 full-vehicle simulations, campaigns finish in five to nine days, versus months with the group's earlier DEM-based workflow. Finally, a preliminary hardware study suggests the simulation-optimized wheel designs preserve relative performance trends on the physical rover. Together, these results show that scalable, high-fidelity simulation can enable practical co-optimization of wheel design and control for off-road vehicles on deformable terrain without relying on prohibitively expensive DEM studies. The simulation infrastructure (scripts and models) is released as open source in a public repository to support reproducibility and further research.

机器人设计仿真优化贝叶斯优化火星车

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