arXiv:2606.03390cs.RO2026-06

让机械臂在不越界前提下走更长直线路径,提升运动极限性能。

Extreme Motion Generation via Hybrid Null-Space Control for Straight-Line Path Following

论文配图:Extreme Motion Generation via Hybrid Null-Space Control for Straight-Line Path Following
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  • 用强化学习与经典控制混合策略,根据关节距离边界自动切换
  • 7自由度机械臂平均路径长度提升27%,最极端任务增长显著
  • 适合需要最大化运动范围的工业场景如喷涂、焊接

本研究关注‘极端运动生成’,旨在预设轨迹范围内最大化机械臂的笛卡尔路径长度。该目标在工业中至关重要,因路径跟踪广泛应用于表面涂覆、焊接等任务。更关键的是,极端运动可使固定基座机械臂在可达性受限条件下充分挖掘运动学潜能。然而实际执行中需主动规避安全边界,属于典型的长时程决策问题。为此,我们提出分步级混合控制器:将长时程决策交由基于强化学习的策略以实现最优利用,而经典模型控制器则负责近边界区域——此处学习策略因数据稀疏而性能下降。具体方法基于条件扩散采样初始关节配置,利用学习到的运动先验提升路径长度。我们在7-DoF Franka FR3上对10,000个直线路径任务进行评估,相比模型基线平均推进长度提升27%。统计结果显示,部分任务达到显著的极端运动扩展。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This work studies ``extreme motion generation'', which aims to maximize the Cartesian path length along a pre-defined trajectory within the manipulator's workspace. This objective is important in industry as long as path-following is fundamental to a large variety of tasks such as surface coating and welding. More critically, extreme motion enables a fixed-base manipulator to exploit the kinematic capability under limited reachability. However, such exploitation is challenging in practice, as the manipulator must actively avoid the safety boundary through execution, which is inherently a long-horizon problem. Accordingly, we claim that long-horizon decision-making should be delegated to a learning-based policy to maximize exploitation, while a classical model-based controller covers the near-boundary region, where the learning policy degrades sharply due to sparse data coverage. In detail, our proposed method is a step-level hybrid controller that switches between an RL-based and a model-based controller according to the normalized joint-limit distance. The initial joint configuration is sampled through conditional diffusion-based sampling, which improves the achievable path length based on the learned motion prior. We evaluate the proposed framework on 10,000 straight-line path-following tasks with a 7-DoF Franka FR3, extending the average rollout length by 27\% over the model-based baseline. Notably, certain tasks yield a pronounced extension toward the motion extreme, as reflected in the maximum improvement reported in the statistical results. The project website and related videos of this paper can be found at https://yuan-xinyi.github.io/extreme-motion-generation/.

运动规划强化学习机械臂路径优化

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