タコに着想を得たソフトロボットアームの分散制御:グラフニューラルネットワークに基づく注意方策と環境との相互作用
Octopus-inspired Distributed Control for Soft Robotic Arms: A Graph Neural Network-Based Attention Policy with Environmental Interaction
タコの腕を模したセグメント型ソフトロボットアームの分散制御手法SoftGMを提案。各セクションを協調エージェントとし、アームと環境の相互作用をグラフで表現し、グラフ注意機構とCTDEパラダイムで接触の多い環境での目標到達を学習する。
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著者: Linxin Hou, Qirui Wu, Zhihang Qin, Yongxin Guo, Cecilia Laschi
分類: cs.RO
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This paper proposes SoftGM, an octopus-inspired distributed control architecture for segmented soft robotic arms that learn to reach targets in contact-rich environments using online obstacle discovery without assuming full obstacle geometry at the start of each episode. SoftGM formulates each arm section as a cooperative agent and represents the arm-environment interaction as a graph. SoftGM uses a two-stage graph attention message passing scheme following a Centralised Training Decentralised Execution (CTDE) paradigm with a centralised critic and decentralised actor. We evaluate SoftGM in a Cosserat-rod simulator (PyElastica) across three tasks that increase the complexity of the environment: obstacle-free, structured obstacles, and a wall-with-hole scenario. Compared with six widely used MARL baselines (IDDPG, IPPO, ISAC, MADDPG, MAPPO, MASAC) under identical information content and training conditions, SoftGM matches strong CTDE methods in simpler settings and achieves the best performance in the wall-with-hole task. Robustness tests with observation noise, single-section actuation failure, and transient disturbances show that SoftGM maintains comparable performance under non-ideal simulated conditions while keeping control effort bounded, suggesting that selective contact-relevant information routing improves resilience in the tested settings.
