Problem
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octopus crawling
soft robots
coordination modes
adaptation
motor abundance
Diverse and Adaptable Arm Coordination for Octopus-Crawling via Diffusion-Based Uncertainty-Aware Optimization
🤖 AI Summary
研究通过引入基于扩散的不确定性感知优化算法，解决了软体多臂机器人在丰富接触模拟中自适应协调控制的问题。
📝 Abstract
Octopus crawling motivates soft robots that exploit redundancy, yet discovering and organizing diverse coordination modes for adaptation remains challenging. To address this, we introduce a Diffusion-based Uncertainty-aware Optimization (DUO) algorithm that learns demonstration-free crawling controllers for a simulated, muscle-actuated CyberOctopus. This work represents the first application of diffusion-based control to soft multi-arm robots in contact-rich simulations. By embedding a variety of locomotion behaviors within a shared control distribution, this approach enables the simulated octopus to navigate dynamic physical constraints, demonstrating that learned coordination diversity inherently facilitates robust adaptation. The main contributions include: (i) a symmetry-structured policy representation that folds radially equivalent controllers into a canonical directional sector, (ii) an online black-box optimization strategy, the DUO algorithm, that discovers and retains diverse coordination modes, and (iii) a control editing technique that adapts existing controllers to novel actuator constraints without retraining. These results show how learned coordination diversity makes motor abundance a practical resource for adaptation in soft multi-arm robots.
Innovation
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Diffusion-based Uncertainty-aware Optimization (DUO)
soft multi-arm robots
symmetry-structured policy representation
control editing
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