連続体ソフトロボティクスにおける分散コンプライアンスと高性能制御の両立
Reconciling distributed compliance with high-performance control in continuum soft robotics
完全に柔軟な連続体ロボットアームで、高速かつ精密な動的タスクを実現するための設計と制御手法を提案した論文。
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著者: Vito Daniele Perfetta, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina
分類: cs.RO
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High-performance closed-loop control of truly soft continuum manipulators has remained elusive. Experimental demonstrations have largely relied on sufficiently stiff, piecewise architectures in which each actuated segment behaves as a distributed yet effectively rigid element, while deformation modes beyond simple bending are suppressed. This strategy simplifies modeling and control, but sidesteps the intrinsic complexity of a fully compliant body and makes the system behave as a serial kinematic chain, much like a conventional articulated robot. An implicit conclusion has consequently emerged within the community: distributed softness and dynamic precision are incompatible. Here we show this trade-off is not fundamental. We present a highly compliant, fully continuum robotic arm - without hardware discretization or stiffness-based mode suppression - that achieves fast, precise task-space convergence under dynamic conditions. The platform integrates direct-drive actuation, a tendon routing scheme enabling coupled bending and twisting, and a structured nonlinear control architecture grounded in reduced-order strain modeling of underactuated systems. Modeling, actuation, and control are co-designed to preserve essential mechanical complexity while enabling high-bandwidth loop closure. Experiments demonstrate accurate, repeatable execution of dynamic Cartesian tasks, including fast positioning and interaction. The proposed system achieves the fastest reported task-execution speed among soft robots. At millimetric precision, execution speed increases nearly fourfold compared with prior approaches, while operating on a fully compliant continuum body. These results show that distributed compliance and high-performance dynamic control can coexist, opening a path toward truly soft manipulators approaching the operational capabilities of rigid robots without sacrificing morphological richness.
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