通过残差加速度场提升软体机器人仿真真实度,无需重训练即可适配新形状。
RAFL: Generalizable Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots with Residual Acceleration Field Learning
- 用局部特征学习残差加速度场,修正仿真偏差。
- 在未见形态上实现零样本改进,优于传统系统辨识。
- 适合需快速迭代设计的软体机器人研发人员。
可微分仿真器可通过梯度优化软体机器人的材料参数、控制策略和结构形态,但因仿真与现实之间的差距,准确建模真实系统仍具挑战性,尤其当几何形状作为设计变量时更为明显。系统辨识通过拟合全局材料参数以减少差异,但若本构模型不准确或观测数据稀疏,识别出的参数常包含几何依赖效应,而非反映真实的材料特性。更复杂的本构模型虽能提升精度,却显著增加计算开销,限制实用性。本文提出残差加速度场学习(RAFL)框架,通过在基础仿真器上叠加可迁移的、单元级的校正动力学场来改进仿真。该模型基于共享局部特征运行,对全局网格拓扑和离散化方式无感。通过可微分仿真器,使用稀疏标记观测端到端训练,所学残差项可在不同形状间泛化。在模拟到模拟及模拟到现实实验中,本方法在未见过的形态上均实现一致的零样本性能提升,而系统辨识则常出现负迁移。该框架还支持持续优化,在结构形态优化过程中逐步累积仿真精度。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Differentiable simulators enable gradient-based optimization of soft robots over material parameters, control, and morphology, but accurately modeling real systems remains challenging due to the sim-to-real gap. This issue becomes more pronounced when geometry is itself a design variable. System identification reduces discrepancies by fitting global material parameters to data; however, when constitutive models are misspecified or observations are sparse, identified parameters often absorb geometry-dependent effects rather than reflect intrinsic material behavior. More expressive constitutive models can improve accuracy but substantially increase computational cost, limiting practicality. We propose a residual acceleration field learning (RAFL) framework that augments a base simulator with a transferable, element-level corrective dynamics field. Operating on shared local features, the model is agnostic to global mesh topology and discretization. Trained end-to-end through a differentiable simulator using sparse marker observations, the learned residual generalizes across shapes. In both sim-to-sim and sim-to-real experiments, our method achieves consistent zero-shot improvements on unseen morphologies, while system identification frequently exhibits negative transfer. The framework also supports continual refinement, enabling simulation accuracy to accumulate during morphology optimization.
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