arXiv:2608.16555cs.RO2026-08

用神经网络思维设计机器人身体,让身体自动帮控制器干活。

Co-design of Neural and Muscle Network based on Embodied Perceptron Representation

论文配图:Co-design of Neural and Muscle Network based on Embodied Perceptron Representation
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  • 把机器人身体看作带权重和激活函数的神经元
  • 单神经元控制器也能稳定运行,模型缩小很多
  • 适合做机器人身体与控制联合优化的研究者

人工智能进步推动了复杂控制策略的发展,但许多机器人仍采用简单结构,限制环境适应性。研究表明,精心设计的身体可通过物理与环境交互替代部分控制与计算功能,但当前设计仍依赖专家直觉。为此,本文提出具身感知器(Embodied Perceptron)理论框架,将神经网络与物理身体系统统一:身体的机械参数对应权重,物理非线性充当激活函数。通过将物理约束表示为权重、非线性特性视为激活函数,可将身体建模为神经网络形式。该表征使我们能理论证明身体可替代部分神经控制。作为应用,我们在肌动型机器人中联合优化控制策略与肌肉配置,结果表明具身智能具备内在稳定性,提升学习效率,并显著降低模型规模——即使仅使用单神经元控制器。研究连接信息与物理世界,为理解与系统化设计具身智能系统提供路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent advances in AI technologies have enabled the advanced design of complex control policies. In contrast, focusing on the body, many robots still employ simple bodies that can limit adaptability to environments. Studies in embodied robotics have shown that well-designed bodies can partially replace the role of control and computation with physical body-environment interactions, yet such designs still depend heavily on expert intuition. There is a need for a systematic theoretical framework for body design, as well as a method for joint optimization of the body and controller. To address this, we introduce the Embodied Perceptron, a theoretical framework that unifies neural networks and physical body systems. In this view, the body itself acts as a perceptron: mechanical parameters correspond to weights, and physical nonlinearities play the role of activation functions. By representing physical constraints as weights and nonlinear properties as activation functions, a physical body can be modeled in neural-network form. The system representation enables us to explicitly and theoretically explain that the body can substitute for part of the neural control. As an application, we co-optimize control policy and muscle configuration in a musculoskeletal robot and show that the resulting embodied intelligence can provide inherent stability, improve learning efficiency, and drastically reduce model size-even with a single-neuron controller. The results bridge the informational and physical worlds and provide a pathway toward understanding and systematic design of embodied AI systems.

具身智能机器人设计神经网络协同优化

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