用简化模型快速设计软体机器人,支持多种任务和结构的自动优化。
Generalized Task-Driven Design of Soft Robots via Reduced-Order FEM-based Surrogate Modeling
- 基于降阶有限元构建可迁移的关节代理模型,兼顾精度与速度。
- 在气动、肌腱驱动等多类执行器上实现高精度模拟到现实的迁移。
- 适用于强化学习协同设计与进化算法形状匹配,适合机器人自动化设计者。
软体机器人任务驱动设计需要兼具物理准确性与计算效率且能跨执行器设计与任务场景复用的模型。现有方法通常在物理保真度与计算效率间存在根本权衡,限制了模型在不同设计与任务间的复用,制约了可扩展的任务驱动优化。本文提出一种统一的基于降阶有限元方法(FEM)的代理建模流程,用于通用任务驱动的软体机器人设计。高保真FEM仿真在模块层面刻画执行器行为,从中构建紧凑的代理关节模型,用于伪刚体模型(PRBM)中的评估。一个元模型将执行器设计参数映射为代理表示,实现对参数化执行器族的快速实例化。所生成模型嵌入基于PRBM的仿真环境,支持在真实物理约束下的任务级仿真与优化。该流程在多种执行器类型(包括波纹管式气动执行器和肌腱驱动软指)上验证了从仿真到现实的迁移能力,并完成了两项任务驱动设计研究:基于强化学习的软夹爪协同设计,以及基于进化优化的3D执行器形状匹配。结果表明模型具备高精度、高效率与可靠复用性,为自主任务驱动软体机器人设计提供了可扩展基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Task-driven design of soft robots requires models that are physically accurate and computationally efficient, while remaining transferable across actuator designs and task scenarios. However, existing modeling approaches typically face a fundamental trade-off between physical fidelity and computational efficiency, which limits model reuse across design and task variations and constrains scalable task-driven optimization. This paper presents a unified reduced-order finite element method (FEM)-based surrogate modeling pipeline for generalized task-driven soft robot design. High-fidelity FEM simulations characterize actuator behavior at the modular level, from which compact surrogate joint models are constructed for evaluation within a pseudo-rigid body model (PRBM). A meta-model maps actuator design parameters to surrogate representations, enabling rapid instantiation across a parameterized actuator family. The resulting models are embedded into a PRBM-based simulation environment, supporting task-level simulation and optimization under realistic physical constraints. The proposed pipeline is validated through sim-to-real transfer across multiple actuator types, including bellow-type pneumatic actuators and a tendon-driven soft finger, as well as two task-driven design studies: soft gripper co-design via Reinforcement Learning (RL) and 3D actuator shape matching via evolutionary optimization. The results demonstrate high accuracy, efficiency, and reliable reuse, providing a scalable foundation for autonomous task-driven soft robot design.
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