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Data-driven soft robot control via adiabatic spectral submanifolds

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Roshan S. Kaundinya
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John Irvin Alora
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Jonas G. Matt
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Luis A. Pabon
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Marco Pavone
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George Haller
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<jats:p>The mechanical complexity of soft robots creates significant challenges for their model-based control. Specifically, linear data-driven models have struggled to control soft robots on complex, spatially extended paths that explore regions with significant nonlinear behavior. To account for these nonlinearities, we develop here a model-predictive control strategy based on the recent theory of adiabatic spectral submanifolds (aSSMs). This theory is applicable because the internal vibrations of heavily overdamped robots decay at a speed that is much faster than the desired speed of the robot along its intended path. In that case, low-dimensional attracting invariant manifolds (aSSMs) emanate from the path and carry the dominant dynamics of the robot. Aided by this recent theory, we devise an aSSM-based model-predictive control scheme purely from data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our data-driven model in tracking dynamic trajectories across diverse tasks. We validate on high-fidelity, high-dimensional finite-element models of a soft trunk robot and Cosserat-rod-based elastic soft arms, with additional experiments confirming robust performance even in the presence of experimental noise. Notably, we find that five- or six-dimensional aSSM-reduced models outperform the tracking performance of other data-driven modeling methods by a factor up to 10 across all closed-loop control tasks.</jats:p>

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International Journal of Robotics Research
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