通过动态匹配优化软体机器人物理储池,性能提升超三成。
From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching

- 用可微分物理模型联合优化硬件参数与控制策略。
- 在多个任务上平均性能提升33.7%,逼近数字参考表现。
- 适合做软体机器人智能计算的科研人员参考。
软体机器人基底因其柔性的非线性动力学,具备时序记忆、高维状态变换和高效推理能力,是物理储池计算(PRC)的理想载体。然而,现有物理储池多直接使用,未经过预训练或联合优化,限制了其性能。本文提出一种新方法:以高性能数字参考动态为目标,对物理储池进行预训练与联合优化。通过可微分物理模型与加速度级误差目标函数,同步优化物理参数、物理-参考状态映射及前馈反馈控制。以模拟软体机器人为实例,采用随机振荡器网络(RON)作为参考,结合并行多起点梯度下降实现优化。在分类(sMNIST、ADIAC)与预测(Mackey-Glass、Lorenz96)任务中,四种不同维度的储池均表现优异,相比未优化的软体储池,平均相对性能提升达33.7%,且保持与数字参考的高度接近。结果验证了该动态级联合优化方案在模拟软体储池中的可行性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, high-dimensional state transformations, and efficient inference. However, physical reservoirs are often adopted as-is rather than pretrained or co-optimized, potentially limiting soft robotic PRC performance relative to digital reservoirs. We investigate whether a physical reservoir can instead be pretrained against high-performing digital reference dynamics. Our formulation jointly optimizes physical parameters, a diffeomorphic physical-reference state map, and feedforward-feedback control using a differentiable physical model and an acceleration-level equation-error objective that avoids temporal integration. As a proof of concept, we instantiate the formulation with simulated soft robots, a Random Oscillators Network (RON) reference, and parallel multi-start gradient descent. We evaluate the optimized reservoirs on classification (sMNIST and ADIAC) and forecasting (Mackey-Glass and Lorenz96) tasks across four reservoir dimensions. Compared with unoptimized soft robot reservoirs, the optimized reservoirs achieve a mean relative improvement of 33.7% across all tasks and datasets, while remaining close to the digital reference. These results demonstrate the feasibility of dynamics-level co-optimization for the simulated soft robotic reservoirs considered here.
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