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ChainQueen: a real-time differentiable physical simulator for soft robotics

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
dc.creator Hu, Yuanming
dc.creator Liu, Jiancheng
dc.creator Spielberg, Andrew
dc.creator Tenenbaum, Joshua B
dc.creator Freeman, William T
dc.creator Wu, Jiajun
dc.creator Rus, Daniela L
dc.creator Matusik, Wojciech
dc.date 2020-08-18T20:33:09Z
dc.date 2020-08-18T20:33:09Z
dc.date 2019-05
dc.date 2019-10-08T16:20:49Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:11:00Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:11:00Z
dc.identifier 978-1-5386-6027-0
dc.identifier 2577-087X
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126657
dc.identifier Hu, Yuanming et al. "ChainQueen: a real-time differentiable physical simulator for soft robotics." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019 (ICRA 2019), May 20-24, 2019, Montreal, Quebec: 6265-71 ©2019 Author(s)
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279063
dc.description Physical simulators have been widely used in robot planning and control. Among them, differentiable simulators are particularly favored, as they can be incorporated into gradient-based optimization algorithms that are efficient in solving inverse problems such as optimal control and motion planning. Therefore, rigid body simulators and recently their differentiable variants are studied extensively. Simulating deformable objects is, however, more challenging compared to rigid body dynamics. The underlying physical laws of deformable objects are more complex, and the resulting systems have orders of magnitude more degrees of freedom and there-fore they are significantly more computationally expensive to simulate. Computing gradients with respect to physical design or controller parameters is typically even more computationally challenging. In this paper, we propose a real-time, differentiable hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian physical simulator for deformable objects, ChainQueen, based on the Moving Least Squares Material Point Method (MLS-MPM). MLS-MPM can simulate deformable objects with collisions and can be seamlessly incorporated into soft robotic systems. We demonstrate that our simulator achieves high precision in both forward simulation and backward gradient computation. We have successfully employed it in a diverse set of inference, control and co-design tasks for soft robotics.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher IEEE
dc.relation 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794333
dc.relation IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source arXiv
dc.title ChainQueen: a real-time differentiable physical simulator for soft robotics
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper


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