用图神经网络实现软体机器人形态与控制的协同进化。
Evolving Embodied Intelligence: Graph Neural Network--Driven Co-Design of Morphology and Control in Soft Robotics
- 将机器人建模为图结构,通过GAT和MLP联合优化形态与控制策略。
- 进化过程中保持拓扑一致,使控制器能适应形态变化,提升适应性。
- 相比传统方法,新模型在基准测试中表现更优,适合软体机器人设计。
机器人的智能行为不仅源于控制系统,更来自身体与大脑的紧密耦合,即具身智能。设计能利用这种互动的软体机器人仍面临挑战,尤其当形态与控制需同步优化时。一个主要障碍是形态演化会破坏已学习的控制策略,难以复用或迁移知识。本文提出基于图神经网络的形态与控制器协同设计方法:每个机器人以图形式表示,使用图注意力网络(GAT)编码节点特征,池化后通过多层感知机(MLP)生成执行器指令或价值估计。进化过程中采用拓扑一致的继承机制:共享的GAT层被重用,MLP隐藏层完整传递,匹配的执行器输出直接复制,不匹配项则随机初始化并微调。该形态感知的策略类使控制器可随身体变异自适应。在基准测试中,相比仅用MLP的传统协同设计方法,本方法获得更高最终适应度,并展现出更强的形态变化适应能力。结果表明,图结构策略为具身智能中的形态演化与控制提供了更有效的接口。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The intelligent behavior of robots does not emerge solely from control systems, but from the tight coupling between body and brain, a principle known as embodied intelligence. Designing soft robots that leverage this interaction remains a significant challenge, particularly when morphology and control require simultaneous optimization. A significant obstacle in this co-design process is that morphological evolution can disrupt learned control strategies, making it difficult to reuse or adapt existing knowledge. We address this by develop a Graph Neural Network-based approach for the co-design of morphology and controller. Each robot is represented as a graph, with a graph attention network (GAT) encoding node features and a pooled representation passed through a multilayer perceptron (MLP) head to produce actuator commands or value estimates. During evolution, inheritance follows a topology-consistent mapping: shared GAT layers are reused, MLP hidden layers are transferred intact, matched actuator outputs are copied, and unmatched ones are randomly initialized and fine-tuned. This morphology-aware policy class lets the controller adapt when the body mutates. On the benchmark, our GAT-based approach achieves higher final fitness and stronger adaptability to morphological variations compared to traditional MLP-only co-design methods. These results indicate that graph-structured policies provide a more effective interface between evolving morphologies and control for embodied intelligence.
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