Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review

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Main Authors: Chen, Zixi, Renda, Federico, Gall, Alexia Le, Mocellin, Lorenzo, Bernabei, Matteo, Dangel, Théo, Ciuti, Gastone, Cianchetti, Matteo, Stefanini, Cesare
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author Chen, Zixi
Renda, Federico
Gall, Alexia Le
Mocellin, Lorenzo
Bernabei, Matteo
Dangel, Théo
Ciuti, Gastone
Cianchetti, Matteo
Stefanini, Cesare
author_facet Chen, Zixi
Renda, Federico
Gall, Alexia Le
Mocellin, Lorenzo
Bernabei, Matteo
Dangel, Théo
Ciuti, Gastone
Cianchetti, Matteo
Stefanini, Cesare
contents Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics, unstructured environment exploring, and industrial grippers. In this case, they attract scholars from a variety of areas. However, nonlinearity and hysteresis effects also bring a burden to robot modeling. Moreover, following their flexibility and adaptation, soft robot control is more challenging than rigid robot control. In order to model and control soft robots, a large number of data-driven methods are utilized in pairs or separately. This review first briefly introduces two foundations for data-driven approaches, which are physical models and the Jacobian matrix, then summarizes three kinds of data-driven approaches, which are statistical method, neural network, and reinforcement learning. This review compares the modeling and controller features, e.g., model dynamics, data requirement, and target task, within and among these categories. Finally, we summarize the features of each method. A discussion about the advantages and limitations of the existing modeling and control approaches is presented, and we forecast the future of data-driven approaches in soft robots. A website (https://sites.google.com/view/23zcb) is built for this review and will be updated frequently.
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spellingShingle Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review
Chen, Zixi
Renda, Federico
Gall, Alexia Le
Mocellin, Lorenzo
Bernabei, Matteo
Dangel, Théo
Ciuti, Gastone
Cianchetti, Matteo
Stefanini, Cesare
Robotics
Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics, unstructured environment exploring, and industrial grippers. In this case, they attract scholars from a variety of areas. However, nonlinearity and hysteresis effects also bring a burden to robot modeling. Moreover, following their flexibility and adaptation, soft robot control is more challenging than rigid robot control. In order to model and control soft robots, a large number of data-driven methods are utilized in pairs or separately. This review first briefly introduces two foundations for data-driven approaches, which are physical models and the Jacobian matrix, then summarizes three kinds of data-driven approaches, which are statistical method, neural network, and reinforcement learning. This review compares the modeling and controller features, e.g., model dynamics, data requirement, and target task, within and among these categories. Finally, we summarize the features of each method. A discussion about the advantages and limitations of the existing modeling and control approaches is presented, and we forecast the future of data-driven approaches in soft robots. A website (https://sites.google.com/view/23zcb) is built for this review and will be updated frequently.
title Data-driven Methods Applied to Soft Robot Modeling and Control: A Review
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12137