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Learning-in-the-loop optimization: End-to-end control and co-design of soft robots through learned deep latent representations

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Spielberg, Andrew; Zhao, Allan; Du, Tao; Hu, Yuanming; Rus, Daniela L; Matusik, Wojciech; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
Soft robots have continuum solid bodies that can deform in an infinite number of ways. Controlling soft robots is very challenging as there are no closed form solutions. We present a learning-in-the-loop co-optimization algorithm in which a latent state representation is learned as the robot figures out how to solve the task. Our solution marries hybrid particle-grid-based simulation with deep, variational convolutional autoencoder architectures that can capture salient features of robot dynamics with high efficacy. We demonstrate our dynamics-aware feature learning algorithm on both 2D and 3D soft robots, and show that it is more robust and faster converging than the dynamics-oblivious baseline. We validate the behavior of our algorithm with visualizations of the learned representation.
Date issued
2019
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129794
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Citation
Spielberg, Andrew et al. "Learning-in-the-loop optimization: End-to-end control and co-design of soft robots through learned deep latent representations." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (2019). © 2019 Neural information processing systems foundation. All rights reserved.
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1049-5258

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